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



NAME
       toascii - convert character to ASCII

SYNOPSIS
       #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
       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
       The value returned is that of the converted character.

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 charac-
       ters.

SEE ALSO
       isascii(3), tolower(3), toupper(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 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)