TOWUPPER(P)

NAME
towupper - transliterate lowercase wide-character code to uppercase

SYNOPSIS

#include <wctype.h>

wint_t towupper(wint_t wc);

DESCRIPTION

The towupper() function has as a domain a type wint_t, the value of which the application shall ensure is a character representable as a wchar_t, and a wide-character code corresponding to a valid character in the current locale or the value of WEOF. If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined. If the argument of towupper() represents a lowercase wide-character code, and there exists a corresponding uppercase wide-character code (as defined by character type information in the program locale category LC_CTYPE ), the result shall be the corresponding uppercase wide-character code. All other arguments in the domain are returned unchanged.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, towupper() shall return the uppercase letter corresponding to the argument passed. Otherwise, it shall return the argument unchanged.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

setlocale() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 7, Locale, <wctype.h>, <wchar.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 .