Name
MB_CUR_MAX — maximum length of a multibyte character
in the current locale
DESCRIPTION
The MB_CUR_MAX
macro defines
an integer expression giving the maximum number of bytes
needed to represent a single wide character in the current
locale. It is locale dependent and therefore not a
compile-time constant.
RETURN VALUE
An integer >= 1 and <= MB_LEN_MAX. The value 1
denotes traditional 8-bit encoded characters.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
MB_LEN_MAX(3), mblen(3), mbstowcs(3), mbtowc(3), wcstombs(3), wctomb(3)
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
References consulted:
GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
Modified, aeb, 990824
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