/* Return number of characters in multibyte representation for current character set. Copyright (C) 1996-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper , 1996. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include #include #include #include "localeinfo.h" /* This is a gross hack to get broken programs running. ISO C provides no mean to find out how many bytes the wide character representation really uses. But it defines MB_CUR_LEN to return the information for the multi-byte character representation. Many programmers don't know the difference between the two and think this means the same. But assuming all characters have a size of MB_CUR_LEN after they have been processed by `mbrtowc' is wrong. Instead the maximum number of characters used for the conversion is MB_CUR_LEN. It is known that some Motif applications have this problem. To cure this one has to make sure the glibc uses the function in this file instead of the one in locale/mb_cur_max.c. This can either be done by linking with this file or by using the LD_PRELOAD feature of the dynamic linker. */ size_t __ctype_get_mb_cur_max (void) { union locale_data_value u; u.string = nl_langinfo (_NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX); return ((size_t []) { 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 })[u.word]; }