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perlguts: Update utf8_hop reference #23691

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Expand Up @@ -3552,9 +3552,8 @@ how long the first character in it is with the C<UTF8SKIP> macro:
len = UTF8SKIP(utf); /* len is 3 here */

Another way to skip over characters in a UTF-8 string is to use
C<utf8_hop>, which takes a string and a number of characters to skip
over. You're on your own about bounds checking, though, so don't use it
lightly.
L<perlapi/C<utf8_hop_safe>>, which takes a string and a number of
characters to skip over.

All bytes in a multi-byte UTF-8 character will have the high bit set,
so you can test if you need to do something special with this
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