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wcswidth
POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcswidth.html
Gnulib module: wcswidth
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
wchar_t
is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
However, the Gnulib function c32swidth
, provided by Gnulib module
c32swidth
, operates on 32-bit wide characters and therefore does not
have this limitation.