Name
MB_LEN_MAX — maximum multibyte length of a character
across all locales
DESCRIPTION
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
A constant integer >= 1.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
The entities MB_LEN_MAX
and
sizeof(wchar_t)
are
totally unrelated. In the GNU libc, MB_LEN_MAX
is typically 6 while sizeof(wchar_t)
is 4.
SEE ALSO
MB_CUR_MAX(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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