wcwidth(3) — Linux manual pages

Linux manual pages	Section 3

Name

wcwidth — determine columns needed for a wide character

Synopsis

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#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 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.

COLOPHON

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References consulted:
  GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
  Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
  OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html