BSON_UTF8_NEXT_CHAR(3)

✨ BSON_UTF8_NEXT_CHAR(3) ✨

okay so this one is from the libbson manual and honestly it's giving "tiny function, big main character energy" 💅 she's small but she's important.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const char *
bson_utf8_next_char (const char *utf8);

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• utf8 — a UTF-8 encoded string, bestie. that's the whole vibe.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is advance within utf8 to the next UTF-8 character, and here's the tea — that next character may be multiple bytes offset from where utf8 is pointing rn. like, it's not always one byte, because UTF-8 is that girl and she's multi-byte sometimes. 💀

she hands you back a pointer to that next character. slay. ✨

⚠️ but listen — it is invalid to call this function on a string whose current character is \0. like, do not do that. that's the vibe check failing. 🙈

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💖 RETURNS 💖

a pointer to the beginning of the next character in the UTF-8 encoded string. literally exactly what you asked for, no cap. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — the icons behind it all 🌈

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🍓 this is libbson version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — so go forth, walk those UTF-8 strings one character at a time, and remember: never on a \0. mwah 💋💜