NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       wcswidth  -  determine  columns	needed for a fixed-size wide character
       string

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <wchar.h>

       int wcswidth (const wchar_t *s, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 non-printable wide character occurs among these  characters,
       -1 is returned.

RETURN VALUE    [Toc]    [Back]

       The  wcswidth  function	returns the number of column positions for the
       wide-character string s, truncated to at most length n.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       UNIX98

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       wcwidth(3), iswprint(3)

NOTES    [Toc]    [Back]

       The behaviour of wcswidth depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the  current
 locale.



GNU				  1999-07-25			   WCSWIDTH(3)