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.TH MB_LEN_MAX 3 1999-07-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <limits.h>
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B MB_LEN_MAX
macro is the upper bound for the number of bytes needed to represent a single
wide character, across all locales.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
A constant integer greater than zero.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
The entities
.B MB_LEN_MAX
and
.I sizeof(wchar_t)
are totally unrelated.
In glibc,
.B MB_LEN_MAX
is typically 6 while
.I sizeof(wchar_t)
is 4.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR MB_CUR_MAX (3)
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.