netbsd man page for wcwidth

Query: wcwidth

OS: netbsd

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WCWIDTH(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						WCWIDTH(3)

NAME
wcwidth -- number of column positions of a wide-character code
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcwidth(wchar_t wc);
DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required to display the wide character wc.
RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a nul wide character (L''), -1 if wc is not printable, otherwise it returns the num- ber of column positions the character occupies.
EXAMPLES
This code fragment reads text from standard input and breaks lines that are more than 20 column positions wide, similar to the fold(1) util- ity: wint_t ch; int column, w; column = 0; while ((ch = getwchar()) != WEOF) { w = wcwidth(ch); if (w > 0 && column + w >= 20) { putwchar(L' '); column = 0; } putwchar(ch); if (ch == L' ') column = 0; else if (w > 0) column += w; }
SEE ALSO
iswprint(3), wcswidth(3)
STANDARDS
The wcwidth() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
BSD
August 17, 2004 BSD
Related Man Pages
wcwidth(3c) - opensolaris
wcwidth(3) - linux
wcwidth(3) - suse
wcwidth(3) - ultrix
wcwidth(3) - bsd
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