Codechange: add std::string variant of Utf8StringLength

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/string.cpp b/src/string.cpp
index 1cf61e8b4..e9a619c40 100644
--- a/src/string.cpp
+++ b/src/string.cpp
@@ -395,6 +395,16 @@ size_t Utf8StringLength(const char *s)
 	return len;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Get the length of an UTF-8 encoded string in number of characters
+ * and thus not the number of bytes that the encoded string contains.
+ * @param s The string to get the length for.
+ * @return The length of the string in characters.
+ */
+size_t Utf8StringLength(const std::string &str)
+{
+	return Utf8StringLength(str.c_str());
+}
 
 /**
  * Convert a given ASCII string to lowercase.
diff --git a/src/string_func.h b/src/string_func.h
index 0988f01b3..2e258fbd2 100644
--- a/src/string_func.h
+++ b/src/string_func.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static inline const char *Utf8PrevChar(const char *s)
 }
 
 size_t Utf8StringLength(const char *s);
+size_t Utf8StringLength(const std::string &str);
 
 /**
  * Is the given character a lead surrogate code point?