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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
| commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
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| parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man3/wcswidth.3 b/man/man3/wcswidth.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b46fc52 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/wcswidth.3 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" 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 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +wcswidth \- determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide-character string +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <wchar.h> +.P +.BI "int wcswidth(const wchar_t *" s ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR wcswidth () +function returns the +number of columns needed to represent +the wide-character string pointed to by +.IR s , +but at most +.I n +wide +characters. +If a nonprintable wide character occurs among these characters, +\-1 is returned. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR wcswidth () +function +returns the number of column positions for the +wide-character string +.IR s , +truncated to at most length +.IR n . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR wcswidth () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR wcswidth () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR iswprint (3), +.BR wcwidth (3) |