Allegro 5 api
#include <allegro5/allegro.h> size_t al_utf8_width(int c)
Returns the number of bytes that would be occupied by the specified code point when encoded in UTF-8. This is between 1 and 4 bytes for legal code point values. Otherwise returns 0.
al_utf8_encode(3alleg5), al_utf16_width(3alleg5)