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mblen
mblen(bytestr[, charset])
This function returns the number of bytes in bytestr that form whole characters in the character set specified by charset, which may be a single-byte character set (SBCS), multi-byte character set (MBCS), or double-byte character set (DBCS). The length returned should be passed to mbstoucs to convert the string to Unicode. charset is one of the following strings:
iso8859-1
iso8859-2
iso8859-3
iso8859-4
iso8859-5
iso8859-7
iso8859-8
iso8859-9
ps_ascii
ps_symbol
jeuc
sjis
big5hku
gb2312
koi8
ksc5601
utf-8
Unicode
If charset is not specified, the system character set is assumed.