Comment by lelanthran
13 hours ago
> If you only need the byte count then even you can use strlen no matter what the encoding is.
No, strlen won't give you the byte count on UTF16 encodings.
> If you need character count then you don't use strlen no matter what the encoding is (except in ASCII only environment).
What use-case requires the character count without also requiring a unicode glyph library?
> strlen won't give you the byte count on UTF16 encodings.
You're right. I stand corrected.