* required to encode the string.
* @param string text to encode
* @return number of UTF-8 bytes required to encode
*/
public static int utf8Length(String string) {
CharacterIterator iter = new StringCharacterIterator(string);
char ch = iter.first();
int size = 0;
while (ch != CharacterIterator.DONE) {
if ((ch >= 0xD800) && (ch < 0xDC00)) {
// surrogate pair?
char trail = iter.next();
if ((trail > 0xDBFF) && (trail < 0xE000)) {
// valid pair
size += 4;
} else {
// invalid pair
size += 3;
iter.previous(); // rewind one
}
} else if (ch < 0x80) {
size++;
} else if (ch < 0x800) {
size += 2;
} else {
// ch < 0x10000, that is, the largest char value
size += 3;
}
ch = iter.next();
}
return size;
}