al_ustr_size_utf16(3)

✨ NAME ✨

al_ustr_size_utf16 — Allegro 5 API

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t al_ustr_size_utf16(const ALLEGRO_USTR *us)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this one is lowkey a size-checker: al_ustr_size_utf16 returns the number of bytes required to encode the string in UTF-16, and yes, that count includes the terminating 0. ✨

It's usually called before al_ustr_encode_utf16(3) to determine the size of the buffer to allocate. That's the whole vibe: check the size first, then allocate, slay 💅

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_ustr_size(3)

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