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Name

wcswidth - determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide character string

Synopsis


#include <wchar.h>
int wcswidth (const wchar_t* s, size_t n);

Description

The wcswidth function returns the number of columns needed to represent the wide-character string pointed to by s, but at most n wide characters. If a non-printable wide character occurs among these characters, -1 is returned.

Return Value

The wcswidth function returns the number of column positions for the wide-character string s, truncated to at most length n.

Conforming to

UNIX98

See Also

wcwidth(3) , iswprint(3)

Notes

The behaviour of wcswidth depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.


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