wcswidth

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

CONFORMING TO

POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

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

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