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42.Dd October 13, 2006
43.Dt WCSCOLL 3
44.Os
45.Sh NAME
46.Nm wcscoll
47.Nd compare wide strings according to current collation
48.Sh LIBRARY
49.Lb libc
50.Sh SYNOPSIS
51.In wchar.h
52.Ft int
53.Fn wcscoll "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2"
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Fn wcscoll
57function compares the nul-terminated strings
58.Fa s1
59and
60.Fa s2
61according to the current locale collation order.
62In the
63.Dq Li C
64locale,
65.Fn wcscoll
66is equivalent to
67.Fn wcscmp .
68.Sh RETURN VALUES
69The
70.Fn wcscoll
71function returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than
720, if
73.Fa s1
74is greater than, equal to, or less than
75.Fa s2 .
76.Pp
77No return value is reserved to indicate errors;
78callers should set
79.Va errno
80to 0 before calling
81.Fn wcscoll .
82If it is non-zero upon return from
83.Fn wcscoll ,
84an error has occurred.
85.Sh ERRORS
86The
87.Fn wcscoll
88function will fail if:
89.Bl -tag -width Er
90.It Bq Er EILSEQ
91An invalid wide-character code was specified.
92.It Bq Er ENOMEM
93Cannot allocate enough memory for temporary buffers.
94.El
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr setlocale 3 ,
97.Xr strcoll 3 ,
98.Xr wcscmp 3 ,
99.Xr wcsxfrm 3
100.Sh STANDARDS
101The
102.Fn wcscoll
103function conforms to
104.St -isoC-99 .
105.Sh BUGS
106The current implementation of
107.Fn wcscoll
108function disregards
109.Dv LC_COLLATE
110locales, and falls back to using the
111.Fn wcscmp
112function.
113