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NAME

       towctrans - wide-character transliteration

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wctype.h>

       wint_t towctrans(wint_t wc, wctrans_t desc);

DESCRIPTION

       The towctrans() function shall transliterate the wide-character code wc
       using the mapping  described  by  desc.  The  current  setting  of  the
       LC_CTYPE  category  should  be the same as during the call to wctrans()
       that returned the value desc.    If the value of desc is invalid  (that
       is,  not  obtained  by  a call to wctrans() or desc is invalidated by a
       subsequent call to setlocale() that has affected category  LC_CTYPE  ),
       the result is unspecified.

       An  application  wishing to check for error situations should set errno
       to 0 before calling towctrans(). If errno is  non-zero  on  return,  an
       error has occurred.

RETURN VALUE

       If  successful,  the towctrans() function shall return the mapped value
       of wc using the mapping described by desc. Otherwise, it  shall  return
       wc unchanged.

ERRORS

       The towctrans() function may fail if:

       EINVAL desc contains an invalid transliteration descriptor.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       The  strings  "tolower"  and  "toupper"  are  reserved for the standard
       mapping names. In the table below, the functions in the left column are
       equivalent to the functions in the right column.

              towlower(wc)    towctrans(wc, wctrans("tolower"))
              towupper(wc)    towctrans(wc, wctrans("toupper"))

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       towlower()  ,  towupper()  , wctrans() , the Base Definitions volume of
       IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <wctype.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),  The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications  Issue  6,  Copyright  (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open  Group.  In  the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group  Standard
       is  the  referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online
       at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .