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Base Operating System and Extensions Technical Reference, Volume 2

wctrans Subroutine

Purpose

Define character mapping.

Library

Standard library (libc.a)

Syntax

#include <wctype.h>
wctrans_t wctrans (const char * charclass);

Description

The wctrans function is defined for valid character mapping names identified in the current locale. The charclass is a string identifying a generic character mapping name for which codeset-specific information is required. The following character mapping names are defined in all locales "tolower" and "toupper".

The function returns a value of type wctrans_t, which can be used as the second argument to subsequent calls of towctrans. The wctrans function determines values of wctrans_t according to the rules of the coded character set defined by character mapping information in the program's locale (category LC_CTYPE). The values returned by wctrans are valid until a call to setlocale that modifies the category LC_CTYPE.

Return Values

The wctrans function returns 0 if the given character mapping name is not valid for the current locale (category LC_CTYPE), otherwise it returns a non-zero object of type wctrans_t that can be used in calls to towctrans.

Error Codes

The wctrans function may fail if:

EINVAL The character mapping name pointed to by charclass is not valid in the current locale.

Implementation Specifics

This subroutine is part of Base Operating System (BOS) subroutine.

Related Information

The towctrans subroutine.

The wctype.h file.


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