Determines if a given character typically takes zero width when rendered.
The return value is true for all non-spacing and enclosing marks (e.g., combining accents), format characters, zero-width space, but not U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN.
A typical use of this function is with one of iswide or iswide_cjk to determine the number of cells a string occupies when displayed on a grid display (terminals). However, note that not all terminals support zero-width rendering of zero-width marks.
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a Unicode character |
true if the character has zero width |