NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | CONFORMING TO | NOTES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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MB_LEN_MAX(3)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                 MB_LEN_MAX(3)

NAME         top

       MB_LEN_MAX - maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <limits.h>

DESCRIPTION         top

       The MB_LEN_MAX macro is the upper bound for the number of bytes needed to
       represent a single wide character, across all locales.

RETURN VALUE         top

       A constant integer greater than zero.

CONFORMING TO         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES         top

       The entities MB_LEN_MAX and sizeof(wchar_t) are totally unrelated.  In glibc,
       MB_LEN_MAX is typically 6 while sizeof(wchar_t) is 4.

SEE ALSO         top

       MB_CUR_MAX(3)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                                 1999-07-04                        MB_LEN_MAX(3)

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