ucwidth(3)

💖 ucwidth(3) — the Allegro manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this one is a low level helper function for testing Unicode text data, straight out of the Allegro game programming library. it's giving "small but mighty" energy fr fr 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int ucwidth(int c);

like, that's the whole thing. one include, one function, no drama 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, real talk: ucwidth is a low level helper function for testing Unicode text data. that's it, that's the whole job. she's not out here doing the most, she's just doing her lil thing in the Allegro game programming library 💜

think of her as the backstage queen — you don't see her on stage, but the whole Unicode text situation lowkey falls apart without her. no cap. 🎀

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

she returns the number of bytes that would be occupied by the character value you passed in, when it's encoded in the current format ✨

so like, depending on what format you're vibing in, the same character value can eat up a different number of bytes. she tells you exactly how many. iconic behaviour tbh 👑

heads up bestie: it's the count for the current format, not some universal fixed number. the format is the main character here, she's just reporting the tea 🫖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• uwidth_max(3)
• ugetc(3)
• ugetx(3)
• usetc(3)
• uwidth(3)
• uisok(3)

go read those too, they're all in the same little Unicode squad and they ate 💅✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Allegro version 4.4.3, the ucwidth(3) page from the Allegro manual — mwah, love that for us 💖🎀🦋 periodt ✨