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.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
.\"
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.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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.\" References consulted:
.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
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.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
.\"
.TH WCWIDTH 3 2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
wcwidth \- determine columns needed for a wide character
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BR "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
.B #include <wchar.h>
.sp
.BI "int wcwidth(wchar_t " c );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR wcwidth ()
function returns the number of columns
needed to represent the wide character \fIc\fP.
If \fIc\fP is a printable wide character, the value
is at least 0.
If \fIc\fP is null wide character (L\(aq\\0\(aq), the value is 0.
Otherwise \-1 is returned.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR wcwidth ()
function returns the number of
column positions for \fIc\fP.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
POSIX.1-2001.
Note that glibc before 2.2.5 used the prototype
.br
.nf
.BI "int wcwidth(wint_t " c );
.fi
.SH NOTES
The behavior of
.BR wcwidth ()
depends on the
.B LC_CTYPE
category of the
current locale.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR iswprint (3),
.BR wcswidth (3)
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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