wcswidth - Man Page

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

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

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).

InterfaceAttributeValue
wcswidth()Thread safetyMT-Safe locale

Standards

POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001.

Notes

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

See Also

iswprint(3), wcwidth(3)

Referenced By

foot.ini(5), unigenwidth(1), utf-8(7), wcwidth(3).

2023-10-31 Linux man-pages 6.7