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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
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-.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-.\"
-.\" References consulted:
-.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
-.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
-.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
-.\"
-.\" Modified, aeb, 990824
-.\"
-.TH MB_LEN_MAX 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.SH NAME
-MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.B #include <limits.h>
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.B MB_LEN_MAX
-macro is the maximum number of bytes needed to represent a single
-wide character, in any of the supported locales.
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-A constant integer greater than zero.
-.SH STANDARDS
-C11, POSIX.1-2008.
-.SH HISTORY
-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 16
-.\" For an explanation of why the limit was raised to 16, see
-.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-05/msg00001.html
-.\" From: Bruno Haible
-.\" Subject: Re: why is MB_LEN_MAX so large (16) on glibc
-.\" Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 02:30:14 +0200
-(6 in glibc versions earlier than 2.2), while
-.I sizeof(wchar_t)
-is 4.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR MB_CUR_MAX (3)