al_ustr_encode_utf16(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay so this is al_ustr_encode_utf16(3), straight outta the Library Functions Manual, and it’s giving Allegro 5 API realness. The function is al_ustr_encode_utf16 — Allegro 5 API. Slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t al_ustr_encode_utf16(const ALLEGRO_USTR *us, uint16_t *s,
   size_t n)

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay bestie, here’s the tea: this one encodes the string into the given buffer, in UTF-16. It returns the number of bytes written. There are never more than n bytes written. The minimum size to encode the complete string can be queried with al_ustr_size_utf16(3). If the n parameter is smaller than that, the string will be truncated but still always 0 terminated. Periodt.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_ustr_size_utf16(3)
• al_utf16_encode(3)

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Source/version vibes: Allegro reference manual — and the footer also repeats al_ustr_encode_utf16(3). No date on this footer, so that’s the whole cute sign-off, bestie. 💅✨