# Standard library header <cwctype>

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This header was originally in the C standard library as `<wctype.h>`.

This header is part of the C-style null-terminated wide strings library.

### Types

`wctrans_t` | scalar type that holds locale-specific character mapping
`wctype_t` | scalar type that holds locale-specific character classification
`wint_t` | integer type that can hold any valid wide character and at least one more value

### Macros

WEOF | a non-character value of type wint_t used to indicate errors (macro constant)

### Functions

##### Character classification

iswalnum | checks if a wide character is alphanumeric (function)
iswalpha | checks if a wide character is alphabetic (function)
iswlower | checks if a wide character is lowercase (function)
iswupper | checks if a wide character is an uppercase character (function)
iswdigit | checks if a wide character is a digit (function)
iswxdigit | checks if a character is a hexadecimal character (function)
iswcntrl | checks if a wide character is a control character (function)
iswgraph | checks if a wide character is a graphical character (function)
iswspace | checks if a wide character is a space character (function)
iswblank (C++11) | checks if a wide character is a blank character (function)
iswprint | checks if a wide character is a printing character (function)
iswpunct | checks if a wide character is a punctuation character (function)
iswctype | classifies a wide character according to the specified LC_CTYPE category (function)
wctype | looks up a character classification category in the current C locale (function)

##### Character manipulation

towlower | converts a wide character to lowercase (function)
towupper | converts a wide character to uppercase (function)
towctrans | performs character mapping according to the specified LC_CTYPE mapping category (function)
wctrans | looks up a character mapping category in the current C locale (function)

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