iswlower - test for lowercase wide character
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#include <wctype.h>
int iswlower(wint_t wc);
The iswlower() function is the wide-character
equivalent of the islower(3) function. It tests whether
wc
is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class
"lower".
The wide-character class "lower" is a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", and therefore also a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", of the wide-character class "graph" and of the wide-character class "print".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "punct".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "digit".
The wide-character class "lower" contains at least those characters
wc
which are equal to towlower(wc)
and different from
towupper(wc)
.
The wide-character class "lower" always contains at least the letters 'a' to 'z'.
The iswlower() function returns nonzero if
wc
is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class
"lower". Otherwise, it returns zero.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
iswlower() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
The behavior of iswlower() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower, and title case.