std:: isalpha (std::locale)

Checks if the given character is classified as an alphabetic character by the given locale's std::ctype facet.

Parameters

Return value

Returns true if the character is classified as alphabetic, false otherwise.

Possible implementation

template<class CharT>
bool isalpha(CharT ch, const std::locale& loc)
{
    return std::use_facet<std::ctype<CharT>>(loc).is(std::ctype_base::alpha, ch);
}

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
 
int main()
{
    const wchar_t c = L'\u042f'; // cyrillic capital letter ya
 
    std::locale loc1("C");
    std::cout << "isalpha('Я', C locale) returned "
              << std::boolalpha << std::isalpha(c, loc1) << '\n';
 
    std::locale loc2("en_US.UTF8");
    std::cout << "isalpha('Я', Unicode locale) returned "
              << std::boolalpha << std::isalpha(c, loc2) << '\n';
}

isalpha('Я', C locale) returned false
isalpha('Я', Unicode locale) returned true

See also