> 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 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?