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wcswidth

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

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       #define _XOPEN_SOURCE		 /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #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 nonprintable 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

       POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

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

SEE ALSO

       iswprint(3), wcwidth(3)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU
								    2010-09-10							       WCSWIDTH(3)