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@@ -153,13 +153,12 @@ case-insensitive (1). .SH DESCRIPTION .PP These routines convert between UTF-8 strings and Unicode/Utf-16 characters. -An Unicode character represented as an unsigned, fixed-size -quantity. A UTF-8 character is a Unicode character represented as -a varying-length sequence of up to \fBTCL_UTF_MAX\fR bytes. A multibyte UTF-8 -sequence consists of a lead byte followed by some number of trail bytes. +A UTF-8 character is a Unicode character represented as a varying-length +sequence of up to \fB4\fR bytes. A multibyte UTF-8 sequence +consists of a lead byte followed by some number of trail bytes. .PP -\fBTCL_UTF_MAX\fR is the maximum number of bytes that it takes to -represent one Unicode character in the UTF-8 representation. +\fBTCL_UTF_MAX\fR is the maximum number of bytes that \fBTcl_UtfToUniChar\fR +can consume in a single call. .PP \fBTcl_UniCharToUtf\fR stores the character \fIch\fR as a UTF-8 string in starting at \fIbuf\fR. The return value is the number of bytes stored |