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Return the number of Unicode code points in the specified `string`. `string` is necessarily null‐terminated, so it cannot contain embedded null bytes. The behavior is undefined unless `string` contains valid UTF‐8. Note that `string` may contain less than `bsl::strlen(string)` Unicode code points.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlde_utf8util.h>`

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numCharactersRaw(char const* string);
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `numCodePointsRaw` instead.


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