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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-01-10 22:37:19 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2022-01-17 09:03:27 +0700
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perl-Text-CharWidth (perl module)
-This perl module, Text::CharWidth, gets number of occupied columns of
-a string on a terminal.
-This module supplies features similar as wcwidth(3) and wcswidth(3)
-in C language.
-It computes numbuer of columns occupied on the terminal by a text
-string, which is not always equal to its number of characters and
-depends on the encoding used.
-
-Parameters are to be given in locale encoding, not always in UTF-8.
+This perl module, Text::CharWidth, gets the number of columns occupied
+by a string on a terminal. This is not always equal to the number
+of characters, depending on the encoding in use. This is similar to
+wcwidth(3) and wcswidth(3) in C.
This perl module is needed by Text::WrapI18N.