Merge branch 'jx/utf8-printf-width'

Use a new helper that prints a message and counts its display width
to align the help messages parse-options produces.

* jx/utf8-printf-width:
  Add utf8_fprintf helper that returns correct number of columns

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index a4ee6650e..1087870c5 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -430,6 +430,27 @@ int same_encoding(const char *src, const char *dst)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Wrapper for fprintf and returns the total number of columns required
+ * for the printed string, assuming that the string is utf8.
+ */
+int utf8_fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...)
+{
+	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+	va_list arg;
+	int columns;
+
+	va_start(arg, format);
+	strbuf_vaddf(&buf, format, arg);
+	va_end(arg);
+
+	columns = fputs(buf.buf, stream);
+	if (0 <= columns) /* keep the error from the I/O */
+		columns = utf8_strwidth(buf.buf);
+	strbuf_release(&buf);
+	return columns;
+}
+
+/*
  * Given a buffer and its encoding, return it re-encoded
  * with iconv.  If the conversion fails, returns NULL.
  */