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NAME

6       iswlower - test for lowercase wide character
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <wctype.h>
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11       int iswlower(wint_t wc);
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DESCRIPTION

14       The  iswlower()  function  is  the wide-character equivalent of the is‐
15       lower(3) function.  It tests whether wc is a wide  character  belonging
16       to the wide-character class "lower".
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18       The  wide-character  class  "lower" is a subclass of the wide-character
19       class "alpha", and therefore also  a  subclass  of  the  wide-character
20       class  "alnum",  of  the  wide-character class "graph" and of the wide-
21       character class "print".
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23       Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the  wide-charac‐
24       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl".
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26       Being  a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-charac‐
27       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and
28       its subclass "blank".
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30       Being  a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", the wide-charac‐
31       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "punct".
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33       Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", the  wide-charac‐
34       ter class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "digit".
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36       The  wide-character class "lower" contains at least those characters wc
37       which are equal to towlower(wc) and different from towupper(wc).
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39       The wide-character class "lower" always contains at least  the  letters
40       'a' to 'z'.
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RETURN VALUE

43       The  iswlower()  function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character be‐
44       longing to the wide-character class  "lower".   Otherwise,  it  returns
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ATTRIBUTES

48       For  an  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  this  section,  see at‐
49       tributes(7).
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51       ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
52       │Interface                            │ Attribute     │ Value          │
53       ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
54       │iswlower()                           │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
55       └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
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CONFORMING TO

58       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
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NOTES

61       The behavior of iswlower() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the cur‐
62       rent locale.
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64       This  function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode charac‐
65       ters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower, and  title
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SEE ALSO

69       islower(3), iswctype(3), towlower(3)
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COLOPHON

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