xfree86 man page for wcswidth

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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.

ATTRIBUTES
       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
       |Interface  | Attribute	   | Value	    |
       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
       |wcswidth() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

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

SEE ALSO
       iswprint(3), wcwidth(3)

COLOPHON
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