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.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
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.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
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.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
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.\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
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.\" Modified, aeb, 990824
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.TH MB_LEN_MAX 3 1999-07-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <limits.h>
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B MB_LEN_MAX
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macro is the upper bound for the number of bytes needed to represent a single
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wide character, across all locales.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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A constant integer greater than zero.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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2006-08-04 09:41:28 +00:00
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C99, POSIX.1-2001.
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.SH NOTES
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The entities
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.B MB_LEN_MAX
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and
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.I sizeof(wchar_t)
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2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
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are totally unrelated.
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2007-07-09 22:01:31 +00:00
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In glibc,
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.B MB_LEN_MAX
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is typically 6 while
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.I sizeof(wchar_t)
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is 4.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR MB_CUR_MAX (3)
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