WCSXFRM(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						WCSXFRM(3)

NAME

     wcsxfrm -- transform a wide string under locale

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <wchar.h>

     size_t
     wcsxfrm(wchar_t * restrict dst, const wchar_t * restrict src, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION

     The wcsxfrm() function transforms a null-terminated wide character string pointed to by src according to the current locale collation order
     then copies the transformed string into dst.  No more than n wide characters are copied into dst, including the terminating null character
     added.  If n is set to 0 (it helps to determine an actual size needed for transformation), dst is permitted to be a NULL pointer.

     Comparing two strings using wcscmp() after wcsxfrm() is equivalent to comparing two original strings with wcscoll().

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, wcsxfrm() returns the length of the transformed string not including the terminating null character.  If this
     value is n or more, the contents of dst are indeterminate.

SEE ALSO

     setlocale(3), strxfrm(3), wcscmp(3), wcscoll(3)

STANDARDS

     The wcsxfrm() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').

BUGS

     The current implementation of wcsxfrm() only works in single-byte LC_CTYPE locales, and falls back to using wcsncpy() in locales with
     extended character sets.

     Comparing two strings using wcscmp() after wcsxfrm() is not always equivalent to comparison with wcscoll(); wcsxfrm() only stores information
     about primary collation weights into dst, whereas wcscoll() compares characters using both primary and secondary weights.

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								  October 4, 2002							       BSD