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Return the number of Unicode code points in the specified `string` having the specified `length` (in bytes). `string` need not be null‐terminated and can contain embedded null bytes, and `string` may be null if `0 == length` (see {Empty Input Strings}). The behavior is undefined unless `string` contains valid UTF‐8. Note that `string` may contain less than `length` Unicode code points.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlde_utf8util.h>`

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

== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `numCodePointsRaw` instead.


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