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1 | .\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 89e3ffe9 | 3 | .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_ONEPARA) |
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4 | .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or |
| 5 | .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as | |
| 6 | .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of | |
| 7 | .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
| fe382ebf | 8 | .\" %%%LICENSE_END |
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9 | .\" |
| 10 | .\" References consulted: | |
| 11 | .\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual | |
| 12 | .\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ | |
| 008f1ecc | 13 | .\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html |
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14 | .\" |
| 15 | .\" Modified, aeb, 990824 | |
| 16 | .\" | |
| 5722c835 | 17 | .TH MB_LEN_MAX 3 2015-07-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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18 | .SH NAME |
| 19 | MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales | |
| 20 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 21 | .nf | |
| 22 | .B #include <limits.h> | |
| 23 | .fi | |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 25 | The | |
| 26 | .B MB_LEN_MAX | |
| 4d53aa00 | 27 | macro is the maximum number of bytes needed to represent a single |
| 302a5d70 | 28 | wide character, in any of the supported locales. |
| 47297adb | 29 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
| 74aace8a | 30 | A constant integer greater than zero. |
| 47297adb | 31 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
| 81b5e48a | 32 | POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99. |
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33 | .SH NOTES |
| 34 | The entities | |
| 35 | .B MB_LEN_MAX | |
| 36 | and | |
| e5056894 | 37 | .I sizeof(wchar_t) |
| c13182ef | 38 | are totally unrelated. |
| 5260fe08 | 39 | In glibc, |
| fea681da | 40 | .B MB_LEN_MAX |
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41 | is typically 16 |
| 42 | .\" For an explanation of why the limit was raised to 16, see | |
| 43 | .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-05/msg00001.html | |
| 44 | .\" From: Bruno Haible | |
| 45 | .\" Subject: Re: why is MB_LEN_MAX so large (16) on glibc | |
| 46 | .\" Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 02:30:14 +0200 | |
| 2a2ecb87 | 47 | (6 in glibc versions earlier than 2.2), while |
| e5056894 | 48 | .I sizeof(wchar_t) |
| fea681da | 49 | is 4. |
| 47297adb | 50 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| fea681da | 51 | .BR MB_CUR_MAX (3) |