What is the difference between mblen and strlen?

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Is today multi-byte character encoding used in Windows, Linux or Mac OS? Is multi-byte character encoding same as fixed-width character encoding in Windows?

@Noctum: mblen exists in cstdlib. – Amir Saniyan Sep 07 '11 at 11:04 — Amir Saniyan, Sep 07 '11 at 11:04

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strlen takes the length of a const char *, and assumes that one char takes one byte, so it counts the chars until a null terminator ('\0') has been encountered, whereas mblen takes a pointer also of type const char *, but this points to the first byte of the multi byte character.

For more info on what are multi-bye characters, have a look at this question.

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What is the difference between mblen and strlen?

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