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Return `true` if the specified `string` having the specified `length` (in bytes) contains valid UTF‐8, and `false` otherwise. `string` need not be null‐terminated and can contain embedded null bytes, and `string` may be null if `0 == length` (see {Empty Input Strings}).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlde_utf8util.h>`

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static
bool
isValid(
    char const* string,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlde/Utf8Util/size_type.adoc[size_type] length);
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