NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | CONFORMING TO | BUGS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

TOASCII(3)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                    TOASCII(3)

NAME         top

       toascii - convert character to ASCII

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <ctype.h>

       int toascii(int c);

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

       toascii(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       The value returned is that of the converted character.

CONFORMING TO         top

       SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001.  POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete, noting
       that it cannot be use portably in a localized application.

BUGS         top

       Many people will be unhappy if you use this function.  This function will
       convert accented letters into random characters.

SEE ALSO         top

       isascii(3), tolower(3), toupper(3)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
       at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                                   2009-03-15                           TOASCII(3)