Name
toascii — convert character to ASCII
Synopsis
#include <ctype.h>
int
toascii( |
int c); |
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DESCRIPTION
toascii() converts
c to a 7-bit
unsigned char value that fits into
the ASCII character set, by clearing the high-order bits.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete, noting that it
cannot be use portably in a localized application.
BUGS
Many people will be unhappy if you use this function. This function will convert accented letters into random characters.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.33 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/.
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