Source: node-wcwidth.js Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Suhail P Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Homepage: http://code.woong.org/wcwidth.js Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-wcwidth.js.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-wcwidth.js.git Package: node-wcwidth.js Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs , node-defaults (>= 1.0.0) Description: wcwidth.js is a javascript porting of C's wcwidth() wcwidth.js is a simple javascript porting of wcwidth() implemented in C by Markus Kuhn. . wcwidth() and its string version, wcswidth() are defined by IEEE Std 1002.1-2001, a.k.a. POSIX.1-2001, and return the number of columns used to represent a wide character and string on fixed-width output devices like terminals. Markus's implementation assumes wide characters to be encoded in ISO 10646, which is almost true for JavaScript; almost because JavaScript uses UCS-2 and has problems with surrogate pairs. wcwidth.js converts surrogate pairs to Unicode code points to handle them correctly. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.