[issue12568] Add functions to get the width in columns of a character

[Nicholas Cole]

Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> added the comment:

Could we have an update on the status of this? I ask because if 3.3 is going to (finally) fix unicode for curses, it would be really nice if it were possible to calculate the width of what's being displayed!  It looks as if there was never quite agreement on the proper API....

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