Width of wide character strings

Question

I need a function to determine columns needed for a wide-character string in different OS. In glibc there is a function wcswidth. It doesn't seem to be available in Windows.

Are there alternatives to it in Windows that I can use? Or maybe there are already available some cross-platfrom standard funcions to do it?

Answer 1

Here's a Github repo that claims to offer a platform independent library to resolve this: https://github.com/joshuarubin/wcwidth9

Archived link: http://archive.is/C5UAF