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.\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
.\"
.TH towlower 3 2025-05-17 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
towlower, towlower_l \- convert a wide character to lowercase
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <wctype.h>
.P
.BI "wint_t towlower(wint_t " wc );
.BI "wint_t towlower_l(wint_t " wc ", locale_t " locale );
.fi
.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
.P
.BR towlower_l ():
.nf
Since glibc 2.10:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700
Before glibc 2.10:
_GNU_SOURCE
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR towlower ()
function is the wide-character equivalent of the
.BR tolower (3)
function.
If
.I wc
is an uppercase wide character,
and there exists a lowercase equivalent in the current locale,
it returns the lowercase equivalent of
.IR wc .
In all other cases,
.I wc
is returned unchanged.
.P
The
.BR towlower_l ()
function performs the same task,
but performs the conversion based on the character type information in
the locale specified by
.IR locale .
The behavior of
.BR towlower_l ()
is undefined if
.I locale
is the special locale object
.B LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
(see
.BR duplocale (3))
or is not a valid locale object handle.
.P
The argument
.I wc
must be representable as a
.I wchar_t
and be a valid character in the locale or be the value
.BR WEOF .
.SH RETURN VALUE
If
.I wc
was convertible to lowercase,
.BR towlower ()
returns its lowercase equivalent;
otherwise it returns
.IR wc .
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface Attribute Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR towlower ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale
T{
.na
.nh
.BR towlower_l ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
.SH STANDARDS
.TP
.BR towlower ()
C11, POSIX.1-2008 (XSI).
.TP
.BR towlower_l ()
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH STANDARDS
.TP
.BR towlower ()
C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI).
Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI).
.TP
.BR towlower_l ()
glibc 2.3.
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH NOTES
The behavior of these functions depends on the
.B LC_CTYPE
category of the locale.
.P
These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters,
because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower, and title case.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR iswlower (3),
.BR towctrans (3),
.BR towupper (3),
.BR locale (7)
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