A valid cut is one that isn't followed by a continuation byte (0b10xx_xxxx).
sub truncate_utf8 {
my ($utf8, $len) = @_;
$len += 0; # Make sure $len is a number.
return $utf8 =~ s/^.{0,$len}\K(?![\x80-\xBF]).*//sr;
}
or
sub truncate_utf8 {
my ($utf8, $len) = @_;
return $utf8 if length($utf8) <= $len;
my $next = substr($utf8, $len, length($utf8)-$len, '');
$next = chop($utf8) while (ord($next) & 0xC0) == 0x80;
return $utf8;
}
Both of these take text that is already encoded using UTF-8.
Update: Fixed typo mentioned by haukex.
Update: Made clear what the input should be.
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