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diff --git a/man3/wcswidth.3 b/man3/wcswidth.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e02b4bf22 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/wcswidth.3 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" +.TH WCSWIDTH 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +wcswidth \- determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide character string +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.sp +.BI "int wcswidth(const wchar_t *" s ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBwcswidth\fP function returns the number of columns needed to represent +the wide-character string pointed to by \fIs\fP, but at most \fIn\fP wide +characters. If a non-printable wide character occurs among these characters, +-1 is returned. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +The \fBwcswidth\fP function returns the number of column positions for the +wide-character string \fIs\fP, truncated to at most length \fIn\fP. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +UNIX98 +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR iswprint (3), +.BR wcwidth (3) +.SH NOTES +The behaviour of \fBwcswidth\fP depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the +current locale. |