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WCWIDTH(3)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                WCWIDTH(3)



 

NAME


       wcwidth - determine columns needed for a wide character

 

SYNOPSIS


       #define _XOPEN_SOURCE
       #include 

       int wcwidth(wchar_t c);

 

DESCRIPTION






       The  wcwidth()  function returns the number of columns needed to repre-
       sent 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  cur-
       rent locale.

 

SEE ALSO


       iswprint(3), wcswidth(3), feature_test_macros(7)

 

COLOPHON


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GNU                               1999-07-25                        WCWIDTH(3)