perl-Text-CharWidth: perl-Text-CharWidth (perl module) perl-Text-CharWidth: perl-Text-CharWidth: This perl module, Text::CharWidth, gets the number of columns occupied perl-Text-CharWidth: by a string on a terminal, which is not always equal to the number perl-Text-CharWidth: of characters, depending on the encoding in use. This is similar to perl-Text-CharWidth: wcwidth(3) and wcswidth(3) in C. perl-Text-CharWidth: perl-Text-CharWidth: This perl module is needed by Text::WrapI18N. perl-Text-CharWidth: perl-Text-CharWidth: perl-Text-CharWidth: