al_utf8_width(3)

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🦋 NAME 🦋

al_utf8_width — Allegro 5 API

Okay bestie, welcome to the al_utf8_width(3) page from the Library Functions Manual — it’s literally here to tell you how many bytes a UTF-8 code point is gonna take up. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t al_utf8_width(int32_t c)

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So al_utf8_width returns the number of bytes that would be occupied by the specified code point when encoded in UTF-8. That count is between 1 and 4 bytes for legal code point values. 💖

Otherwise, it returns 0. Periodt. That’s the vibe check, no cap. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

al_utf8_encode(3)
al_utf16_width(3)

xoxo, from the Allegro reference manual, page al_utf8_width(3) — 💜

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