uwidth_max - Man Page

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(3), ucwidth(3)

Referenced By

ucwidth(3), uwidth(3).

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