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WCWIDTH

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2011-09-28
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NAME

wcwidth - determine columns needed for a wide character  

SYNOPSIS

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE       /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <wchar.h>

int wcwidth(wchar_t c);

 

DESCRIPTION

The wcwidth() function returns the number of columns needed to represent the wide character c. If c is a printable wide character, the value is at least 0. If c is null wide character (L'\0'), the value is 0. Otherwise -1 is returned.  

RETURN VALUE

The wcwidth() function returns the number of column positions for c.  

CONFORMING TO

POSIX.1-2001.

Note that glibc before 2.2.5 used the prototype

int wcwidth(wint_t c);

 

NOTES

The behavior of wcwidth() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.  

SEE ALSO

iswprint(3), wcswidth(3)  

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