Question

How to use mblen() to determine the length of a multibyte character in C

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// int mblen(const char *string, size_t n);
 
int main(void)
{
    int length;
    char string[6] = "x";
    
    length = mblen(string, MB_CUR_MAX);
    printf("wide character length: %d\n", length);
  
    return 0;
}
  
/*
run:
 
wide character length: 1

*/

 

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