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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.