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UTF-8 string routines

About UTF-8 string routines
UTF-8 string types
- ALLEGRO_USTR
- ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO
Creating and destroying strings
Predefined strings
- al_ustr_empty_string
Creating strings by referencing other data
Sizes and offsets
Getting code points
Inserting into strings
Appending to strings
Removing parts of strings
Assigning one string to another
Replacing parts of string
- al_ustr_set_chr
- al_ustr_replace_range
Searching
Comparing
UTF-16 conversion
Low-level UTF-8 routines
- al_utf8_width
- al_utf8_encode
Low-level UTF-16 routines
- al_utf16_width
- al_utf16_encode

al_ustr_find_chr

int al_ustr_find_chr(const ALLEGRO_USTR *us, int start_pos, int32_t c) Introduced in 5.0.0

Search for the encoding of code point c in us from byte offset start_pos (inclusive).

Returns the position where it is found or -1 if it is not found.

See also: al_ustr_rfind_chr

Examples: ex_utf8

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