NAME¶

wcswidth - 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).

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)