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NAME

       towlower - convert a wide character to lowercase

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wctype.h>

       wint_t towlower(wint_t wc);

DESCRIPTION

       The  towlower()  function  is  the  wide-character  equivalent  of  the
       tolower(3) function.  If wc is a wide character,  it  is  converted  to
       lowercase.   Characters  which do not have case are returned unchanged.
       If wc is WEOF, WEOF is returned.

RETURN VALUE

       The towlower() function returns the lowercase equivalent of wc, or WEOF
       if wc is WEOF.

CONFORMING TO

       C99.

NOTES

       The  behavior  of  towlower()  depends  on the LC_CTYPE category of the
       current locale.

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

SEE ALSO

       iswlower(3), towctrans(3), towupper(3)

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