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| author | Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-21 07:37:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-21 07:37:08 +0000 |
| commit | b9b90a131248967679ea3943c6481203add07695 (patch) | |
| tree | 6383bdb99ca26798ca5a359531d4c6653a5da38b /lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 | |
| parent | 9f09e3bbc66129431e4fdfc37665f5c52a3078e0 (diff) | |
| download | src-b9b90a131248967679ea3943c6481203add07695.tar.gz src-b9b90a131248967679ea3943c6481203add07695.zip | |
Re-word compatibility section, taking care to use the word "obsolete" to
describe the 4.4BSD extension of accepting characters (runes) outside of
the range of unsigned char.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=134103
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/locale/tolower.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 b/lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 index 394895eaccef..47dfb44cc03d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/tolower.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)tolower.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 3, 2002 +.Dd August 21, 2004 .Dt TOLOWER 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -68,16 +68,15 @@ If the argument is an upper-case letter, the function returns the corresponding lower-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -Although -.Fn tolower -accepts arguments outside of the range of the -.Vt "unsigned char" -type in locales with large character sets, -this is a +The .Bx 4.4 -extension and the +extension of accepting arguments outside of the range of the +.Vt "unsigned char" +type in locales with large character sets is considered obsolete +and may not be supported in future releases. +The .Fn towlower -function should be used instead for maximum portability. +function should be used instead. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ctype 3 , .Xr islower 3 , |