如果字符串包含ASCII范围之外的UTF-8字符，则boost::algorithm::to_lower将不会转换这些字符。当涉及UTF-8时，最好使用boost::locale::to_lower。参见http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/libs/locale/doc/html/conversions.html

看看优秀的c++17 cppp -unicodelib (GitHub)。它是单文件且只包含头文件。

#include <exception>
#include <iostream>
#include <codecvt>

// cpp-unicodelib, downloaded from GitHub
#include "unicodelib.h"
#include "unicodelib_encodings.h"

using namespace std;
using namespace unicode;

// converter that allows displaying a Unicode32 string
wstring_convert<codecvt_utf8<char32_t>, char32_t> converter;

std::u32string  in = U"Je suis là!";
cout << converter.to_bytes(in) << endl;

std::u32string  lc = to_lowercase(in);
cout << converter.to_bytes(lc) << endl;

输出

Je suis là!
je suis là!

试试这个函数吧。

string toLowerCase(string str) {

    int str_len = str.length();

    string final_str = "";

    for(int i=0; i<str_len; i++) {

        char character = str[i];

        if(character>=65 && character<=92) {

            final_str += (character+32);

        } else {

            final_str += character;

        }

    }

    return final_str;

}

这是Stefan Mai的回应的后续:如果你想把转换的结果放在另一个字符串中，你需要在调用std::transform之前预先分配它的存储空间。由于STL将转换后的字符存储在目标迭代器中(在每次循环迭代时递增)，因此目标字符串不会自动调整大小，并且可能会占用内存。

#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
  std::string sourceString = "Abc";
  std::string destinationString;

  // Allocate the destination space
  destinationString.resize(sourceString.size());

  // Convert the source string to lower case
  // storing the result in destination string
  std::transform(sourceString.begin(),
                 sourceString.end(),
                 destinationString.begin(),
                 ::tolower);

  // Output the result of the conversion
  std::cout << sourceString
            << " -> "
            << destinationString
            << std::endl;
}

std::ctype::tolower()从标准c++本地化库将正确地为您做这件事。下面是一个例子，从下面的参考页面提取

#include <locale>
#include <iostream>

int main () {
  std::locale::global(std::locale("en_US.utf8"));
  std::wcout.imbue(std::locale());
  std::wcout << "In US English UTF-8 locale:\n";
  auto& f = std::use_facet<std::ctype<wchar_t>>(std::locale());
  std::wstring str = L"HELLo, wORLD!";
  std::wcout << "Lowercase form of the string '" << str << "' is ";
  f.tolower(&str[0], &str[0] + str.size());
  std::wcout << "'" << str << "'\n";
}

Boost为此提供了一个字符串算法:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

std::string str = "HELLO, WORLD!";
boost::algorithm::to_lower(str); // modifies str

或者，对于非原位:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

const std::string str = "HELLO, WORLD!";
const std::string lower_str = boost::algorithm::to_lower_copy(str);