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#!/bin/sh
#
# Generate a wcwidth C implementation from Unicode data (tested v7 - v17)
#
# The MIT License (MIT)
#
# Copyright (C) 2025 Avi Halachmi <avihpit at yahoo.com>
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
# copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
# Latest Unicode data source files:
# https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
# https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt
#
# License and term of use in either URL:
# http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
# http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html
export LC_ALL=C
self=${0##*/}
awk=${AWK:-awk} sed=${SED:-sed}
URL_base=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd
URL_verbase=https://www.unicode.org/Public/%s/ucd
ud_file=UnicodeData.txt
eaw_file=EastAsianWidth.txt
# int by default (int is 32 bit and short is 16 on unix/linux/osx/windows, and
# doesn't require stdint.h - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types)
u32=${U32:-unsigned} # or uint32_t
u16=${U16:-unsigned short} # or uint16_t
err() { >&2 printf %s\\n "$self: $*"; exit 1; }
case ${1-} in -h | --help)
echo "Usage: $self [DL=VERSION] [FATTR]"
echo "Print a wcwidth C implementation to stdout."
echo
echo "Uses the files ./$ud_file and ./$eaw_file ."
echo "If the files are missing, the latest will be downloaded."
echo
echo "If DL=XXX is provided, force-download + overwrite, where XXX is:"
echo "- 'latest' -> $URL_base/..."
echo "- 'draft', '16.0.0' etc -> $(printf "$URL_verbase" XXX)/..."
echo
echo "If given, FATTR will be inserted as 'int FATTR wcwidth(...) {...}'."
echo "Optional env vars:"
echo ' $FN Function name to generate. Default: wcwidth.'
echo ' $U32, $U16 unsigned codepoint, u16 C-types. Default: int/short.'
echo ' $AWK, $SED used programs (word-split, e.g. AWK="busybox awk").'
echo
echo 'Requires: sh, curl/wget, sed, awk, and few more POSIX utilities.'
exit
esac
[ "${1-}" = -- ] && shift
DL=
case ${1-} in DL=*) DL=${1#DL=}; shift; esac
[ "${DL-}" ] && [ "$DL" != latest ] && URL_base=$(printf "$URL_verbase" "$DL")
FUNC_ATTR=${1:+$1 }
url2file() { # wget errors on 404-not-found etc, curl requires -f for that
>&2 echo "[$1 -> $2]"
rm -f -- "$2.tmp"
{ { [ "$(which wget)" ] && wget -O "$2.tmp" "$1"; } ||
{ [ "$(which curl)" ] && curl -f -o "$2.tmp" "$1"; }
} && mv -- "$2.tmp" "$2"
}
[ -r "$ud_file" ] && [ -r "$eaw_file" ] && [ -z "$DL" ] || {
url2file "$URL_base/$ud_file" "$ud_file" &&
url2file "$URL_base/$eaw_file" "$eaw_file" ||
err "can't download $ud_file and/or $eaw_file. abort."
}
# extractors of zero-width and wide-width ranges from the Unicode data files.
#
# At https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c - the mother of most current
# wcwidth implementations, by Markus Kuhn (Unicode 5.0) - the width is:
# - 0 for codepoint 0.
# - -1 for control ranges C0/C1, and DEL (1-31, 128-159, 127)
# - 0 if U+200B, cat is Me|Mn|Cf but not U+00AD, Hangul Jamo U+1160..U+11FF.
# - else 2 if East_Asian_Width property is F|W (fullwidth, wide).
# - else 1.
#
# We add as 0-width:
# - Category Mc (combining, diacritics[-like])
# - Hangul Jamo Extended-B U+D7B0..U+D7FF (combining, wasn't in Unicode 5.0)
# - Emoji modifiers U+1F3FB..U+1F3FF (wasn't in Unicode 5.0)
#
# Hangul Jamo, Emoji mods are identified at the data automatically by name.
# U+200B is category Cf since at least 5.0.0 - no need for manual override.
#
# Python wcwidth https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth is like us, plus 0-width:
# - Cat Zl,Zp (2 codepoints: line/para. sep.), but terminals disagree on them.
# - Few unassigned codepoints at Hangul Jamo Extended-B - it adds the range
# manually (includes unassigned), we get (assigned) codepoints at the data.
# - (U+00AD was 0, fixed to 1 after https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth/issues/8)
#
#
# UnicodeData.txt is lines of:
# CODEPOINT;NAME;CATEGORY;(...more) where CODEPOINT is 4-6 hex digits
# or pairs of:
# CODEPOINT;<XNAME, First>;CATEGORY;(...more) where XNAME is group-ish name
# CODEPOINT;<XNAME, Last>;CATEGORY;(...more)
#
# EastAsianWidth.txt is lines of:
# #... (comment)
# or
# CODEPOINT[..LAST];EAW # <stuff> (4-6 hex digits, maybe spaces around ";")
# where EAW is East_Asian_Width property ("F", "W", "A", "N", etc)
# replace First/Last pairs in UnicodeData with one line of FIRST..LAST range.
# assume that First/Last are at consecutive lines, and XNAME/CAT don't change.
# (no-op for us at Unicode v16 - doesn't add new wide/zero width codepoints)
ud_file_ranges() {
$awk -F\; '$2 ~ /, First>$/ { printf $1 ".."; next }; 1' < "$ud_file"
}
# output unsorted/overlapping lines of hex "CODEPOINT[..LAST] WIDTH" (0/1/2)
raw_ranges() {
# wide ranges according to the EAW property
$sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/;/ /' < "$eaw_file" | # comment lines, ';'
$awk '$2 ~ /^[FW]$/ { print $1, 2 }'
# wide by name (older Unicode had EAW==N for some FULLWIDTH names)
ud_file_ranges | $awk -F\; '$2 ~ /FULLWIDTH/ { print $1, 2 }'
# zero-width ranges (override wide-width)
ud_file_ranges | $awk -F\; '
$3 ~ /^(Me|Mn|Mc|Cf)$/ ||
$2 ~ /EMOJI MODIFIER|HANGUL J[OU]NGSEONG/ { print $1, 0 }'
# override soft-hyphen as width 1
echo 00AD 1
}
# lines of hex "CODEPOINT[..LAST] WIDTH" -> decimal "FIRST LAST WIDTH"
as_decimal_ranges() {
while read range width; do
echo $((0x${range%%.*})) $((0x${range##*.})) $width
done
}
# to generate the final ranges list, we need to sort the raw ranges list,
# ensure zero-width overrides wide-width, join adjacent/overlap ranges,
# and split big ranges - our C structure uses 15 bits to store LAST-FIRST of
# each range, and ranges are not allowed to cross plane boundary.
#
# we use simple (and slow) approach: codepoint-bucket-store all the individual
# widths at the input ranges as they come, then scan the whole Unicode range
# (~ 1M buckets) and output continuous ranges of width 0/2. Therefore, later
# inputs of codepoint X override earlier, so width 2 should arrive before W 0.
#
# there's ~3K input ranges of ~200K codepoints, and the output is 450+ ranges.
# depending on sys/awk performance, it's 200ms - 2s, up to ~7s on low-end ARM.
# MERGE_RANGES_C (bottom of this file) is drop-in replacement, runs in few ms.
# sorted lines of "FIRST LAST WIDTH" (FIRST/LAST: hex digits, WIDTH: 0 or 2)
ranges=$(raw_ranges | as_decimal_ranges | $awk '
# The final ~ 1M codepoints scan can take few secs, up to 30+s on low end.
# so use a simple optimization: divide the unicode range to segments which
# do not cross plane boundary (some 2^X, tuned for speed), mark segments
# where an input range can change the width at the final scan (its egdes),
# then skip unmarked segments at the final output scan, as these segs are
# guaranteed to not have any width change. this is effective (x5 speedup)
# because most segments are empty or dense. If the input was spread evenly
# then it would be more effective to store, sort and iterate exactly these
# edges. Currently though, both are same speed, and mark/skip is less code.
BEGIN { SEG = 128 } # 128 or 256 seem fastest
function mark(i) { segs[int(i/SEG)] = 1 }
function skip(i) { return !(int(i/SEG) in segs) }
# input range $1..$2: width may differ at $1 vs $1-1, and at $2+1 vs $2
{ mark($1); mark($2+1) }
# store/overwrite width-1 (1 -> 0) for every codepoint in this range
{ v=$3-1; for (i=$1; i<=$2; w[i++]=v); }
function min(a,b) { return a<b ? a : b }
END {
# scan the full unicode range, print continuous ranges of width 0/2
# the SEG skip is SEG-aligned. to disable: use unconditional i++
for (i = 0; i <= 1114112; skip(i) ? i+=SEG : i++) { # 0x110000
if (w[i] == wprev && i%65536) # no change of width or plane
continue
if (wprev) # range i0..i-1 is width 0 or 2 - print
for (; i0 < i; i0 += 32768) # split (once) if too big
printf "%06x %06x %d\n", i0, min(i0+32767, i-1), 1+wprev
i0 = i
wprev = w[i]
}
}
')
ranges() { printf %s\\n "$ranges"; }
verify_ranges() {(
errv() { err "verify: bad range: $* -- (0x$ha, 0x$hb, $w)"; }
ishex() { case $1 in '' | *[!0-9A-Fa-f]* ) false; esac; } # LC_ALL=C
pa=-2 pb=-2 pw=x # previous range values
while read ha hb w; do
[ "$w" = 0 ] || [ "$w" = 2 ] || errv WIDTH is not 0 or 2
ishex "$ha" && ishex "$hb" || errv not hex values
a=$((0x$ha)) b=$((0x$hb)) # decimal
[ $a -le $b ] || errv "FIRST > LAST"
[ $b -le 1114111 ] || errv out of bounds
[ $((a>>16)) = $((b>>16)) ] || errv not same plane
[ $((b-a)) -lt 32768 ] || errv more than 0x8000 values
[ $a -gt $pb ] || errv overlap or not sorted
# detect adjacent ranges which combined are <= 0x8000 values.
# not detecting 3 adjacent 0x5000 ranges, but shouldn't happen
[ $w != $pw ] || [ $a != $((pb+1)) ] || [ $((b-pa)) -ge 32768 ] ||
errv small same-width adjacent ranges not combined
pa=$a pb=$b pw=$w
done
)}
as_c_ranges() {
while read a b w; do
echo "R(0x$a, 0x$b, $w),"
done
}
# ranges -> stdout: array such that a[p], a[p+1] are [from, to) of plane p data
# (inclusive, exclussive. arr of 18 items - last plane (16) is a[16]..a[17])
extract_plane_indices() {
# for each plane (0..16) print the 1st index at ranges where it appears
# or, if missing, index of the next found plane (ranges are same-plane)
i=0 pdone=-1 # index at ranges, plane whose index was last printed
while read a dummy; do # a: ranges[i].first (hex, plane(a) == a>>16)
while [ $pdone -lt $((0x$a >> 16)) ]; do
printf "$i, "
pdone=$((pdone+1))
done # pdone == plane(a)
i=$((i+1))
done
printf $i # one past last range. the rest are implicit-init as 0
}
indent() { $sed -e '2,$s/^/\t\t/' -e 's/\s*$//'; } # also trim trailing spaces
# only EastAsianWidth.txt has version/date
ver=$(head -n 1 < "$eaw_file" | $sed -e 's/.*-//' -e 's/.txt//')
udate=$(head -n 2 < "$eaw_file" | tail -n 1 | $sed -e 's/.*Date: //')
ranges | verify_ranges || exit
# at the C code, p/bot/top/mid can be $idx_t, but faster as 32 bit types
[ "$(ranges | wc -l)" -lt 65536 ] && idx_t=$u16 || idx_t=$u32
cat << CFUNCTION
/* wcwidth - Unicode $ver
* Copyright (C) 2025 Avi Halachmi <avihpit at yahoo.com>
* License: MIT
*
* Generated by $self on $(date -u -I) using the Unicode files
* $ud_file and $eaw_file ($udate)
*/
int ${FUNC_ATTR}${FN:-wcwidth}($u32 ucs)
{
/* sorted ranges, "first" is clipped to 16 bit, and its high bits
* (plane) are deduced from the "planes" array below.
*/
static const struct range { /* bitfield order empirically fast */
$u16 first: 16;
$u16 iswide: 1;
$u16 delta: 15;
} ranges[] = {
#define R(first, last, width) {first & 0xffff, width/2, last-first}
$(ranges | as_c_ranges | indent)
#undef R
};
/* planes[p], planes[p+1] are [from, to) at "ranges" for plane p */
static const $idx_t planes[18] = {
$(ranges | extract_plane_indices | fold -s -w 60 | indent)
};
/******* END OF STATIC DATA *******/
$u32 p, bot, top;
/* 0:0, 1..31:-1 (C0), 32..126:1 (isprint), 127..159:-1 (DEL, C1) */
if (ucs < 160)
return ((ucs + 1) & 127) > 32 ? 1 : ucs ? -1 : 0;
/* out of range for "planes" (and non-unicode), non-characters. */
/* (some also test surrogate halves, but not required by POSIX) */
if (ucs > 0x10ffff || (ucs & 0xfffe) == 0xfffe)
return -1;
p = ucs >> 16;
ucs &= 0xffff;
for (bot = planes[p], top = planes[p+1]; bot < top; ) {
$u32 mid = (bot + top) / 2;
if (ucs < ranges[mid].first)
top = mid;
else if (ucs > ranges[mid].first + ranges[mid].delta)
bot = mid + 1;
else
return 2 * ranges[mid].iswide;
}
return 1;
} /* wcwidth - Unicode $ver */
CFUNCTION
# C drop-in replacement to the awk script which outputs the final ranges list
: << \MERGE_RANGES_C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
static char w[0x110000 + 1]; /* = {0} which is width==1 */
unsigned a, b, c, i, first; /* assume 32bit (need 21) */
while (3 == scanf("%u%u%u", &a, &b, &c)) /* FIRST LAST WIDTH (W:0/1/2) */
if (b < 0x110000 && c < 3) while (a <= b) w[a++] = (char)c + 1;
/* HEXFIRST HEXLAST WIDTH (W: 0/2, not cross-plane, LAST-FIRST<0x8000) */
for (first = 0, i = 1; i <= 0x110000; ++i) {
if (w[i] == w[i-1] && i % 0x10000 && i - first < 0x8000)
continue;
if (w[i-1] & 1) /* 1 or 3 -> width is 0 or 2 for first..i-1 */
printf("%06x %06x %d\n", first, i-1, w[i-1]-1);
first = i;
}
return 0;
}
MERGE_RANGES_C
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