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NAME

       uwidth_max  -  Number  of  bytes  a  character can occupy. Allegro game
       programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       int uwidth_max(int type);

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:

          char *temp_buffer = malloc(256 * uwidth_max(U_UTF8));

SEE ALSO

       uwidth(3alleg), ucwidth(3alleg)