08-14-2007
What the world needs is different to what people need.
What people need is not the same as what they want.
We also want far more than we need.
Unfortunately it's not having that makes us happy, it's the getting. So once we have, we are then unhappy until we get more.
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toascii
TOASCII(3) Linux Programmer's Manual TOASCII(3)
NAME
toascii - convert character to ASCII
SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h>
int toascii(int c);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
toascii(): _XOPEN_SOURCE
|| /* Glibc since 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
toascii() converts c to a 7-bit unsigned char value that fits into the ASCII character set, by clearing the high-order bits.
RETURN VALUE
The value returned is that of the converted character.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
+----------+---------------+---------+
|Interface | Attribute | Value |
+----------+---------------+---------+
|toascii() | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
+----------+---------------+---------+
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete, noting that it cannot be used portably in a localized application.
BUGS
Many people will be unhappy if you use this function. This function will convert accented letters into random characters.
SEE ALSO
isascii(3), tolower(3), toupper(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2016-03-15 TOASCII(3)