/* * Copyright (C) 2007 Markus Kuhn * * This is an implementation of wcwidth() and wcswidth() (defined in * IEEE Std 1002.1-2001) for Unicode. * * http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/wcwidth.html * http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/wcswidth.html * * In fixed-width output devices, Latin characters all occupy a single * "cell" position of equal width, whereas ideographic CJK characters * occupy two such cells. Interoperability between terminal-line * applications and (teletype-style) character terminals using the * UTF-8 encoding requires agreement on which character should advance * the cursor by how many cell positions. No established formal * standards exist at present on which Unicode character shall occupy * how many cell positions on character terminals. These routines are * a first attempt of defining such behavior based on simple rules * applied to data provided by the Unicode Consortium. * * For some graphical characters, the Unicode standard explicitly * defines a character-cell width via the definition of the East Asian * FullWidth (F), Wide (W), Half-width (H), and Narrow (Na) classes. * In all these cases, there is no ambiguity about which width a * terminal shall use. For characters in the East Asian Ambiguous (A) * class, the width choice depends purely on a preference of backward * compatibility with either historic CJK or Western practice. * Choosing single-width for these characters is easy to justify as * the appropriate long-term solution, as the CJK practice of * displaying these characters as double-width comes from historic * implementation simplicity (8-bit encoded characters were displayed * single-width and 16-bit ones double-width, even for Greek, * Cyrillic, etc.) and not any typographic considerations. * * Much less clear is the choice of width for the Not East Asian * (Neutral) class. Existing practice does not dictate a width for any * of these characters. It would nevertheless make sense * typographically to allocate two character cells to characters such * as for instance EM SPACE or VOLUME INTEGRAL, which cannot be * represented adequately with a single-width glyph. The following * routines at present merely assign a single-cell width to all * neutral characters, in the interest of simplicity. This is not * entirely satisfactory and should be reconsidered before * establishing a formal standard in this area. At the moment, the * decision which Not East Asian (Neutral) characters should be * represented by double-width glyphs cannot yet be answered by * applying a simple rule from the Unicode database content. Setting * up a proper standard for the behavior of UTF-8 character terminals * will require a careful analysis not only of each Unicode character, * but also of each presentation form, something the author of these * routines has avoided to do so far. * * http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr11/ * * Markus Kuhn -- 2007-05-26 (Unicode 5.0) * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software * for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted. The author * disclaims all warranties with regard to this software. * * Latest version: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c */ extern int mk_wcwidth(int ucs); extern int mk_wcswidth(const int* pwcs, size_t n);