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.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
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.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
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.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
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.\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
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.TH WCSWIDTH 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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wcswidth \- determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide character string
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <wchar.h>
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.sp
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.BI "int wcswidth(const wchar_t *" s ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBwcswidth\fP() function returns the number of columns needed to represent
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the wide-character string pointed to by \fIs\fP, but at most \fIn\fP wide
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characters. If a non-printable wide character occurs among these characters,
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-1 is returned.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The \fBwcswidth\fP() function returns the number of column positions for the
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wide-character string \fIs\fP, truncated to at most length \fIn\fP.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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UNIX98
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR iswprint (3),
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.BR wcwidth (3)
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.SH NOTES
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The behaviour of \fBwcswidth\fP() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
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current locale.
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