Re: Byte size of text?

From: Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:14:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Byte size of text?
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John Smith wrote:
What's the most accurate way to get the byte count of some text? Is strlen() accurate with Unicode, ASCII, etc.? John
strlen() is fine even for multibyte encodings, it does not know about encoding and returns the "raw" size. If you wanted the number of characters, you would need multibyte support.

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