mb_strlen for multibyte strings
If you are using strlen() on a multibyte string then you might get a wrong result, if you want to know the number of characters used.
Instead use mb_strlen(), it will count the multibyte chars as 1 char.
mb_strlen is slower than strlen(), but safer if you're expecting exotic characters.
Written by Joeri Verdeyen
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