UNICODEWIDTH Function

specifies the length of a display unit for the Unicode data.
Category: Character
Syntax
Details
Example
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Syntax

UNICODEWIDTH()

Details

The UNICODEWIDTH function specifies the length of a display unit for the Unicode data. The display unit displays the width of a character when the character is displayed with fixed width font. Characters between 0x3000 and 0x303F, 0x3400 and 0x4DFF, 0x4E00 and 0x9FFF, 0xF900 and 0xFAFF, inclusively, have the value of a display unit 2. Other characters are display unit 1.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
len1=unicodewidth("abcxxx");
len1=5
len2=unicodewidth("\u0041\u0042\u0043\u5927",'esc');
len2=5
len3=unicodewidth("大 ",'ncr');
len3=2
len4=unicodewidth("<u0061><u0062>",'paren');
len4=2

See Also

Functions:
UNICODELEN Function
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