C <wctype.h> - towctrans() Function

The C <wctype.h> towctrans() function applies a transformation specified by desc to the wide character wc.

The setting of the LC_CTYPE category at the time of calling the function will be the same as when wctrans() was called to obtain desc. A specific locale can accept multiple transformations for characters. At least the following transformations supported in all C locales are as follows:

Syntax

• C95

wint_t towctrans( wint_t wc, wctrans_t desc ); 

Parameters

Return Value

Returns the transformed value of wc using the transformation identified by desc if such value exists, or wc (unchanged) otherwise.

Example:

The example below shows the usage of towctrans() function.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
 
int main (){
  int i = 0;
  wchar_t str[50] = L"99HEllo@";
  wchar_t c;

  //displaying the alphabetic 
  //character in lower case
  wctype_t check = wctype("alpha");
  wctrans_t trans = wctrans("tolower");
  while (str[i]) {
    c = str[i];
    if (iswctype(c, check)) {
      c = towctrans(c, trans);
      putwchar (c);      
    }
    i++;
  }
  return 0;
}

The output of the above code will be:

hello