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.
Declared in <bdlde_utf8util.h>
static
Utf8Util::IntPtr
numCharactersRaw(char const* string);
DEPRECATED: Use numCodePointsRaw instead.