NAME

wctype.h - wide-character classification and mapping utilities

SYNOPSIS

#include <wctype.h>

DESCRIPTION

^[CX] Some of the functionality described on this reference page extends the ISO C standard. Applications shall define the appropriate feature test macro (see the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.2, The Compilation Environment) to enable the visibility of these symbols in this header.

The <wctype.h> header shall define the following types:

wint_t

As described in <wchar.h>.

wctrans_t

A scalar type that can hold values which represent locale-specific character mappings.

wctype_t

As described in <wchar.h>.

The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.

int       iswalnum(wint_t);
int       iswalpha(wint_t);
int       iswblank(wint_t);
int       iswcntrl(wint_t);
int       iswdigit(wint_t);
int       iswgraph(wint_t);
int       iswlower(wint_t);
int       iswprint(wint_t);
int       iswpunct(wint_t);
int       iswspace(wint_t);
int       iswupper(wint_t);
int       iswxdigit(wint_t);
int       iswctype(wint_t, wctype_t);
wint_t    towctrans(wint_t, wctrans_t);
wint_t    towlower(wint_t);
wint_t    towupper(wint_t);
wctrans_t wctrans(const char *);
wctype_t  wctype(const char *);

The <wctype.h> header shall define the following macro name:

WEOF

Constant expression of type wint_t that is returned by several MSE functions to indicate end-of-file.

For all functions described in this header that accept an argument of type wint_t, the value is representable as a wchar_t or equals the value of WEOF. If this argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

The behavior of these functions shall be affected by the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

^[CX] Inclusion of the <wctype.h> header may make visible all symbols from the headers <ctype.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stddef.h>, <stdio.h>, <stdlib.h>, <string.h>, <time.h>, and <wchar.h>.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

<ctype.h>, <locale.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stddef.h>, <stdio.h>, <stdlib.h>, <string.h>, <time.h>, <wchar.h>, the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, iswalnum(), iswalpha(), iswblank(), iswcntrl(), iswctype(), iswdigit(), iswgraph(), iswlower(), iswprint(), iswpunct(), iswspace(), iswupper(), iswxdigit(), setlocale(), towctrans(), towlower(), towupper(), wctrans(), wctype()

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 5. Derived from the ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1995 (E).

Issue 6

The iswblank() function is added for alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.