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Application Usage
This function was removed from the final ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1995 (E), and the return value for
a non-printable wide character is not specified.
Copyright
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for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 WCWIDTH(3POSIX)
Description
The wcwidth() function shall determine the number of column positions required for the wide character wc.
The application shall ensure that the value of wc is a character representable as a wchar_t, and is a
wide-character code corresponding to a valid character in the current locale.
Errors
No errors are defined.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Examples
None.
Future Directions
None.
Name
wcwidth — number of column positions of a wide-character code
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
None.
Return Value
The wcwidth() function shall either return 0 (if wc is a null wide-character code), or return the number
of column positions to be occupied by the wide-character code wc, or return -1 (if wc does not correspond
to a printable wide-character code).
See Also
wcswidth()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <wchar.h>Synopsis
#include <wchar.h>
int wcwidth(wchar_t wc);
