1uwidth_max(3)                   Allegro manual                   uwidth_max(3)
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NAME

6       uwidth_max  - Number of bytes a character can occupy. Allegro game pro‐
7       gramming library.
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SYNOPSIS

10       #include <allegro.h>
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13       int uwidth_max(int type);
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DESCRIPTION

16       Low level helper function for working with Unicode text  data.  Returns
17       the  largest number of bytes that one character can occupy in the given
18       encoding format. Pass U_CURRENT to represent the current format.  Exam‐
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21          char *temp_buffer = malloc(256 * uwidth_max(U_UTF8));
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SEE ALSO

25       uwidth(3), ucwidth(3)
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29Allegro                          version 4.2.2                   uwidth_max(3)