> If you only need the byte count then even you can use strlen no matter what th...

		lelanthran 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some C habits I employ for the modern day > If you only need the byte count then even you can use strlen no matter what the encoding is. No, strlen won't give you the byte count on UTF16 encodings. > If you need character count then you don't use strlen no matter what the encoding is (except in ASCII only environment). What use-case requires the character count without also requiring a unicode glyph library?

> strlen won't give you the byte count on UTF16 encodings.

You're right. I stand corrected.