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1.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
2.\"
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12.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999
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14.TH TOWUPPER 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
15.SH NAME
16towupper \- convert a wide character to uppercase
17.SH SYNOPSIS
18.nf
19.B #include <wctype.h>
20.sp
21.BI "wint_t towupper(wint_t " wc );
22.fi
23.SH DESCRIPTION
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24The
25.BR towupper ()
26function is the wide-character equivalent of the
27.BR toupper (3)
28function.
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29If \fIwc\fP is a wide character, it is converted to
30uppercase.
31Characters which do not have case are returned unchanged.
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32If \fIwc\fP is WEOF, WEOF is returned.
33.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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34The
35.BR towupper ()
36function returns the uppercase equivalent of \fIwc\fP,
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37or WEOF if \fIwc\fP is WEOF.
38.SH "CONFORMING TO"
68e1685c 39C99.
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d9bfdb9c 41The behavior of
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42.BR towupper ()
43depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
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44current locale.
45.PP
46This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters,
47because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title case.
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48.SH "SEE ALSO"
49.BR iswupper (3),
50.BR towctrans (3),
51.BR towlower (3)