Function

GLib-2.0 ▶ GLib ▶ utf8_strlen

  • Computes the length of the string in characters, not including the terminating nul character. If the max’th byte falls in the middle of a character, the last (partial) character is not counted.

    Parameters

    • p: string

      pointer to the start of a UTF-8 encoded string

    • max: number

      the maximum number of bytes to examine. If max is less than 0, then the string is assumed to be nul-terminated. If max is 0, p will not be examined and may be NULL. If max is greater than 0, up to max bytes are examined

    Returns number

    the length of the string in characters