SYS-UTFBYTES 2
NAME
utfbytes - compute UTF length of complete Unicode characters in a UTF byte sequence
SYNOPSIS
.EX
include "sys.m";
sys := load Sys Sys->PATH;
utfbytes: fn(buf: array of byte, n: int): int;
DESCRIPTION
Utfbytes examines the
n -byte UTF sequence in
buf and returns the number of bytes representing complete Unicode characters.
The value will be less than
n when the region inspected ends with an incomplete UTF sequence.
DIAGNOSTIC
A bounds check error results if
n exceeds the length of the array.
SEE ALSO
sys-intro (2), sys-byte2char (2), utf (6)