utf8strlen()

Find the length of a UTF-8 character string

Synopsis:

#include <utf8.h>

int utf8strlen( char const *text, 
                int *bytes );

Arguments:

text

A UTF-8 string.

bytes

A pointer to a location where utf8strlen() stores the number of bytes in the string.

Library:

ph

Description:

The utf8strlen() function returns the number of UTF-8 characters in the string text, and sets bytes to the number of bytes in text.

Returns:

The number of UTF-8 characters in the string.

Classification:

Photon

See also:

utf8len(), utf8strblen(), utf8strnlen()

Unicode Multilingual Support in the Photon Programmer's Guide