osx man page for wcwidth

Query: wcwidth

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

NAME
wcwidth, wcwidth_l -- number of column positions of a wide-character code
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcwidth(wchar_t wc); #include <wchar.h> #include <xlocale.h> int wcwidth_l(wchar_t wc, locale_t loc);
DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required to display the wide character wc. Although the wcwidth() function uses the current locale, the wcwidth_l() function may be passed a locale directly. See xlocale(3) for more information.
RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a null wide character (L''), -1 if wc is not printable; otherwise, it returns the number 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), xlocale(3)
STANDARDS
The wcwidth() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
BSD
August 17, 2004 BSD
Related Man Pages
wcswidth_l(3) - mojave
wcswidth(3) - mojave
wcwidth(3) - debian
wcwidth_l(3) - osx
wcwidth(3) - freebsd
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