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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 greater than zero.

CONFORMING TO

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

       The  entities MB_LEN_MAX and sizeof(wchar_t) are totally unrelated.  In
       glibc, MB_LEN_MAX is typically 6 while sizeof(wchar_t) is 4.

SEE ALSO

       MB_CUR_MAX(3)

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