Function character_width

ftfy/formatting.py:16–34

r""" Determine the width that a character is likely to be displayed as in a monospaced terminal. The width for a printable character will always be 0, 1, or 2. Nonprintable or control characters will return -1, a convention that comes from wcwidth. >>> character_width('車')

(char: str)

def character_width(char: str) -> int:
    r"""
    Determine the width that a character is likely to be displayed as in
    a monospaced terminal. The width for a printable character will
    always be 0, 1, or 2.

    Nonprintable or control characters will return -1, a convention that comes
    from wcwidth.

    >>> character_width('車')
    2
    >>> character_width('A')
    1
    >>> character_width('\N{ZERO WIDTH JOINER}')
    0
    >>> character_width('\n')
    -1
    """
    return int(wcwidth(char))


def monospaced_width(text: str) -> int: