towlower_l

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

The towlower() function is the wide-character equivalent of the tolower(3) function. If wc is an uppercase wide character, and there exists a lowercase equivalent in the current locale, it returns the lowercase equivalent of wc. In all other cases, wc is returned unchanged.

The towlower_l() function performs the same task, but performs the conversion based on the character type information in the locale specified by locale. The behavior of towlower_l() is undefined if locale is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE (see duplocale(3)) or is not a valid locale object handle.

The argument wc must be representable as a wchar_t and be a valid character in the locale or be the value WEOF.

If wc was convertible to lowercase, towlower() returns its lowercase equivalent; otherwise it returns wc.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

towlower()

C11, POSIX.1-2008 (XSI).

towlower_l()

POSIX.1-2008.

towlower()

C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI). Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI).

towlower_l()

glibc 2.3. POSIX.1-2008.

The behavior of these functions depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the locale.

These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower, and title case.