Based on man page from FreeBSD with some tweaks: - use $OpenBSD$, $Mdocdate$ - removed trivial example code - removed quotes around .Nd arg
I'd put in into lib/libc/locale along with the other locale-related man pages. ok? Index: wcwidth.3 =================================================================== RCS file: wcwidth.3 diff -N wcwidth.3 --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ wcwidth.3 3 Apr 2011 14:27:25 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Tim J. Robbins +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $OpenBSD$ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate$ +.Dt WCWIDTH 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm wcwidth +.Nd number of column positions of a wide-character code +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In wchar.h +.Ft int +.Fn wcwidth "wchar_t wc" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn wcwidth +function determines the number of column positions required to +display the wide character +.Fa wc . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn wcwidth +function returns 0 if the +.Fa wc +argument is a null wide character (L'\e0'), +\-1 if +.Fa wc +is not printable, +otherwise it returns the number of column positions the +character occupies. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr iswprint 3 , +.Xr wcswidth 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn wcwidth +function conforms to +.St -p1003.1-2001 .
