Length of a string displayable in C

[Berlin Baby]

Does anyone know if there is a function in lib or libX11 which returns the number of characters? (strlen () is not appropriate because it returns the number of bytes)
Eg "/hame/big/proj$", strlen () returns me 19 while only 15 characters 'to', 'é', 'i', 'O' which are 2octets characters.

I made a function:

unsigned int StringLength(char *str)
  ( 
    unsigned int nb; 
    char c, flg; 

    for (nb = 0, flg = 0; (c = *str) != '\0'; ++str, ++pos) { 
      if (isprint(c) != 0){ // classical character display                                                                                      
        flg = 0; 
        ++nb; 
      ) 
      else if (flg == 0) // if it was the first byte of a 2octets character  
        ++flg; 
      else if (flg == 1) { // 2nd characters display the 2octets 
        ++nb; 
        flg = 0; 
      ) 
    ) 
    if (flg == 1) // If the last character was the 2nd byte character 2octets 
      ++nb; 
    return (nb); 
  )

[Zecho]

it's utf8:

size_t strlen_utf8 (const char * const s) 
  ( 
     size_t i = 0; 
     size_t j = 0; 
   
     while (s[i])  
     ( 
        if ((s[i] & 0xc0) != 0x80)  
           j++;
         
        i++; 
     ) 
   
     return j; 
  )

[kelfro]

If your string is a wide char (wchar_t-based), the function is wcslen
If your string is encoded in utf8 mblen should do the trick.

[Berlin Baby]

What a solution... Wow. Thank you.