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NAME
       towupper, towupper_l - convert a wide character to uppercase

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wctype.h>

       wint_t towupper(wint_t wc);

       wint_t towupper_l(wint_t wc, locale_t locale);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       towupper_l():
	   Since glibc 2.10:
		  _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700
	   Before glibc 2.10:
		  _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       The  towupper()	function is the wide-character equivalent of the toup-
       per(3) function.	 If wc is a lowercase wide character, and there exists
       an uppercase equivalent in the current locale, it returns the uppercase
       equivalent of wc.  In all other cases, wc is returned unchanged.

       The towupper_l() function performs the same task, but performs the con-
       version based on the character type information in the locale specified
       by locale.  The behavior of towupper_l() is undefined if locale is  the
       special	locale	object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE (see duplocale(3)) or is not a
       valid locale object handle.

       The argument wc must be representable as a wchar_t and be a valid char-
       acter in the locale or be the value WEOF.

RETURN VALUE
       If  wc  was  convertible to uppercase, towupper() returns its uppercase
       equivalent; otherwise it returns wc.

VERSIONS
       The towupper_l() function first appeared in glibc 2.3.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an	explanation  of	 the  terms  used   in	 this	section,   see
       attributes(7).

       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |Interface    | Attribute     | Value	      |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |towupper()   | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
       |towupper_l() | Thread safety | MT-Safe	      |
       +-------------+---------------+----------------+
CONFORMING TO
       towupper():  C99,  POSIX.1-2001	(XSI);	present as an XSI extension in
       POSIX.1-2008, but marked obsolete.

       towupper_l(): POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES
       The behavior of these functions depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
       locale.

       These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode char-
       acters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title
       case.

SEE ALSO
       iswupper(3), towctrans(3), towlower(3), locale(7)

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