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.TH uwidth_max 3alleg4 "version 4.4.3" "Allegro" "Allegro manual"
.SH NAME
uwidth_max \- Number of bytes a character can occupy. Allegro game programming library.\&
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <allegro.h>

.sp
.B int uwidth_max(int type);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Low level helper function for working with Unicode text data. Returns the 
largest number of bytes that one character can occupy in the given 
encoding format. Pass U_CURRENT to represent the current format. Example:

.nf
   char *temp_buffer = malloc(256 * uwidth_max(U_UTF8));
.fi

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR uwidth (3alleg4),
.BR ucwidth (3alleg4)