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WCSWIDTH (3)

determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide character string

SYNOPSIS

    #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 non-printable 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

    UNIX98

SEE ALSO

NOTES

    The behaviour of wcswidth depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.