WCSWIDTH
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2014-01-22
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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
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
wcswidth()
function is thread-safe with exceptions.
It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as
setlocale(3)
is not called to change the locale during its execution.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
The behavior of
wcswidth()
depends on the
LC_CTYPE
category of the
current locale.
SEE ALSO
iswprint(3),
wcwidth(3)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- RETURN VALUE
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- ATTRIBUTES
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- Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
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- CONFORMING TO
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- NOTES
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- SEE ALSO
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