wcwidth

NAME

wcwidth - determine columns needed for a wide character

SYNOPSIS

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <wchar.h>
 I int wcwidth(wchar_t  c );

DESCRIPTION

The R 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 R 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
I int wcwidth(wint_t  c );

NOTES

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

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