ucwidth(3alleg4)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ucwidth — the little Unicode vibe-checker 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about ucwidth, a page from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4 (yes that's the man page name, she's got a whole government name, we love that for her).

✨ NAME ✨

ucwidth — a low level helper function for testing Unicode text data. Part of the Allegro game programming library, and honestly? she's the quiet one in the group chat who still knows everything. 🧚

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int ucwidth(int c);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. ucwidth is a low level helper function for testing Unicode text data. that's the whole assignment. she's not here to be flashy, she's here to do her little job and do it well. 💅

like, think of her as the backstage crew at the function — you don't see her on stage but nothing works without her. lowkey iconic.

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

she returns the number of bytes that would be occupied by the specified character value, when encoded in the current format. so basically: you hand her a character value, she tells you how many bytes it's gonna take up once it gets encoded in whatever format you're currently running. no cap. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr:

not a single flag, not a single argument beyond c, not a single environment variable — she keeps it minimal and that's the whole point, bestie. periodt. 💖

and that's the page!! this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, and the whole thing goes by ucwidth(3alleg4) — she ate, she left no crumbs, mwah 🎀🫶✨

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