Sun WorkShop Compiler C 5.0 User's Guide

(7.3.1) The sets of characters tested for by the isalnum, isalpha, iscntrl, islower, isprint, and isupper functions:

Table B-6 Character Sets Tested by isalpha, islower, Etc.
 isalnum

ASCII characters A-Z, a-z and 0-9 

 isalpha

ASCII characters A-Z and a-z, plus locale-specific single-byte letters 

 iscntrl

ASCII characters with value 0-31 and 127 

 islower

ASCII characters a-z 

 isprint

Locale-specific single-byte printable characters 

 isupper

ASCII characters A-Z