MB_LEN_MAX (3)

SYNOPSIS

#include <limits.h>

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

ANSI C, POSIX.1

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

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