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+/* Align/Truncate a string in a given screen width
+   Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+#ifndef UTIL_LINUX_MBSALIGN_H
+# define UTIL_LINUX_MBSALIGN_H
+# include <stddef.h>
+
+typedef enum { MBS_ALIGN_LEFT, MBS_ALIGN_RIGHT, MBS_ALIGN_CENTER } mbs_align_t;
+
+enum {
+  /* Use unibyte mode for invalid multibyte strings or
+     or when heap memory is exhausted.  */
+  MBA_UNIBYTE_FALLBACK = 0x0001,
+
+#if 0 /* Other possible options.  */
+  /* Skip invalid multibyte chars rather than failing  */
+  MBA_IGNORE_INVALID   = 0x0002,
+
+  /* Align multibyte strings using "figure space" (\u2007)  */
+  MBA_USE_FIGURE_SPACE = 0x0004,
+
+  /* Don't add any padding  */
+  MBA_TRUNCATE_ONLY    = 0x0008,
+
+  /* Don't truncate  */
+  MBA_PAD_ONLY         = 0x0010,
+#endif
+};
+
+extern size_t mbs_truncate(char *str, size_t *width);
+
+extern size_t mbsalign (const char *src, char *dest,
+			size_t dest_size,  size_t *width,
+			mbs_align_t align, int flags);
+
+extern size_t mbs_safe_nwidth(const char *buf, size_t bufsz, size_t *sz);
+extern size_t mbs_safe_width(const char *s);
+
+extern char *mbs_safe_encode(const char *s, size_t *width);
+extern char *mbs_safe_encode_to_buffer(const char *s, size_t *width, char *buf);
+extern size_t mbs_safe_encode_size(size_t bytes);
+
+#endif /* UTIL_LINUX_MBSALIGN_H */