SYNOPSIS

     #include <wchar.h>

     int
     wcwidth(wchar_t wc);

     #include <xlocale.h>

     int
     wcwidth_l(wchar_t wc, locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION

     The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required
     to display the wide character wc.

     While the wcwidth() function uses the current locale, the wcwidth_l()
     function may be passed a locale directly. See xlocale(3) for more infor-
     mation.

RETURN VALUES

     The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a null wide char-
     acter (L'\0'), -1 if wc is not printable, otherwise it returns the number
     of column positions the character occupies.

EXAMPLES

     This code fragment reads text from standard input and breaks lines that
     are more than 20 column positions wide, similar to the fold(1) utility:

           wint_t ch;
           int column, w;

           column = 0;
           while ((ch = getwchar()) != WEOF) {
                   w = wcwidth(ch);
                   if (w > 0 && column + w >= 20) {
                           putwchar(L'\n');
                           column = 0;
                   }
                   putwchar(ch);
                   if (ch == L'\n')
                           column = 0;
                   else if (w > 0)
                           column += w;
           }

SEE ALSO

     iswprint(3), wcswidth(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The wcwidth() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').