MB_LEN_MAX (3)

NAME

       MB_LEN_MAX - maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales

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

       MB_CUR_MAX(3)

Linux                             1999-07-04                     MB_LEN_MAX(3)