определить столбцы, необходимые для широкого символа  (determine columns needed for a wide character)
  
Имя (Name)
wcwidth - determine columns needed for a wide character
Синопсис (Synopsis)
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE       /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #include <wchar.h>
       int wcwidth(wchar_t c);
Описание (Description)
The wcwidth() function returns the number of columns needed to
       represent the wide character c.  If c is a printable wide
       character, the value is at least 0.  If c is null wide character
       (L'\0'), the value is 0.  Otherwise, -1 is returned.
Возвращаемое значение (Return value)
The wcwidth() function returns the number of column positions for
       c.
Атрибуты (Attributes)
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌───────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
       │Interface                      │ Attribute     │ Value          │
       ├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
       │wcwidth()                      │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
       └───────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Стандарты (Conforming to)
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
       Note that glibc before 2.2.5 used the prototype
       int wcwidth(wint_t c);
Примечание (Note)
The behavior of wcwidth() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
       current locale.
Смотри также (See also)
iswprint(3), wcswidth(3)