iswlower

ISWLOWER(3)                Linux Programmer's Manual               ISWLOWER(3)



NAME
       iswlower - test for lowercase wide character

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wctype.h>

       int iswlower(wint_t wc);

DESCRIPTION
       The  iswlower  function is the wide-character equivalent of the islower
       function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide
       character class "lower".

       The  wide  character  class "lower" is a subclass of the wide character
       class "alpha", and therefore also a  subclass  of  the  wide  character
       class  "alnum",  of  the  wide  character class "graph" and of the wide
       character class "print".

       Being a subclass of the wide character class "print", the wide  charac-
       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide character class "cntrl".

       Being  a subclass of the wide character class "graph", the wide charac-
       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide character class "space" and
       its subclass "blank".

       Being  a subclass of the wide character class "alnum", the wide charac-
       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide character class "punct".

       Being a subclass of the wide character class "alpha", the wide  charac-
       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide character class "digit".

       The  wide character class "lower" contains at least those characters wc
       which are equal to towlower(wc) and different from towupper(wc).

       The wide character class "lower" always contains at least  the  letters
       'a' to 'z'.

RETURN VALUE
       The  iswlower  function  returns  non-zero  if  wc  is a wide character
       belonging to the wide character class  "lower".  Otherwise  it  returns
       zero.

CONFORMING TO
       ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98

SEE ALSO
       islower(3), iswctype(3), towlower(3)

NOTES
       The  behaviour of iswlower depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the cur-
       rent locale.

       This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode  charac-
       ters,  because  Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title
       case.



GNU                               1999-07-25                       ISWLOWER(3)