06-29-2005
I tried set +f and I get
set: variable name must begin with a letter
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wconv(3C) wconv(3C)
NAME
towupper(), towlower() - translate wide characters
SYNOPSIS
Remarks:
These functions are compliant with the XPG4 Worldwide Portability Interface wide-character conversion functions. They parallel the 8-bit
character conversion functions defined in conv(3C).
DESCRIPTION
and have as domain a the value of which is representable as a or the value If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.
If the argument of represents a lowercase letter, the result is the corresponding uppercase letter. If the argument of represents an
uppercase letter, the result is the corresponding lowercase letter. All other arguments are returned unchanged.
Definitions for these functions, the types and the value are provided in the header.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Locale
The category determines the translations to be done.
International Code Set Support
Single-byte and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
AUTHOR
was developed by IBM, OSF, and HP.
SEE ALSO
conv(3C), multibyte(3C), wctype(3C), setlocale(3C), lang(5), thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
wconv(3C)