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wcwidth − determine columns needed for a wide character
#include <wchar.h>
int wcwidth(wchar_t c);
The wcwidth function returns the number of columns needed to represent the wide character c. If c is a printable wide character, the value is at least 0. If c is L’\0’, the value is 0. Otherwise −1 is returned.
The wcwidth function returns the number of column positions for c.
UNIX98.
POSIX.1-2001. Note that glibc before 2.2.5 used the
prototype
int wcwidth(wint_t c);
wcswidth(3), iswprint(3)
The behaviour of wcwidth depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
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