al_utf16_width(3alleg5)

💖 al_utf16_width — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the al_utf16_width(3alleg5) page, you're gonna eat this one UP ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

al_utf16_width — it's an Allegro 5 API thing, and it's literally just here to tell you how thicc a character gets when it goes to UTF-16 school 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t al_utf16_width(int c)

like yes, one include, one function, no drama 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this function takes a code point and tells you the number of bytes it would take up once it's been encoded in UTF-16.

and the answer is genuinely so simple it's giving minimalism:

• for legal code point values, you're getting either 2 or 4 bytes, periodt. no in-between, no chaos, just those two options 🌈
• for anything that isn't a legal code point value? it returns 0 💀

that's it. that's the whole function. no cap, it's iconic for how unbothered it is.

ngl if you get a 0 back, that's your sign that whatever you passed in was not a legal code point, so maybe don't go encoding it anywhere 🙈

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• al_utf16_encode(3alleg5) — the one that actually does the encoding, the main character of this little squad
• al_utf8_width(3alleg5) — same energy, different encoding, UTF-8 girlies rise ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came to you straight from the Allegro reference manual, page al_utf16_width(3alleg5) — go forth and measure your code points responsibly 💜🧚⭐