From: pkk@spth.de   
      
   Am 14.11.25 um 22:03 schrieb Michael Sanders:   
   > static int utf8_width(const char *s) {   
   >      int w = 0;   
   >      const unsigned char *p = (const unsigned char *)s;   
   >   
   >      while (*p) {   
   >          if (*p < 0x80) { w++; p++; } // ASCII 1-byte   
   >          else if ((*p & 0xE0) == 0xC0) { w++; p += 2; } // 2-byte UTF-8   
   >          else if ((*p & 0xF0) == 0xE0) { w++; p += 3; } // 3-byte UTF-8   
   >          else if ((*p & 0xF8) == 0xF0) { w++; p += 4; } // 4-byte UTF-8   
   >          else { w++; p++; } // fallback   
   >      }   
   >   
   >      return w;   
   > }   
   Do you need this to work under non-UTF-8 locales? If you only need that   
   length when the locale is UTF-8, why not just use mblen from stdlib.h?   
      
   Philipp   
      
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