---
title: utf8.strpad
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/functions/unicode/utf8-strpad
---

```
STRING utf8.strpad(STRING s, INTEGER count, STRING pad)
```

**Available in:** all subroutines

Like `std.strpad()` except `count` gives the
number of Unicode code points for the output string rather than bytes.

## Errors

This function requires the input strings `s` and `pad` to be UTF-8 encoded.
If they are not, `fastly.error` will be set
to `EUTF8`.

## Example

```vcl
utf8.strpad("abc", 7, "🌸🌼"); # gives "🌸🌼🌸🌼abc", seven code points total
std.strpad("abc",  7, "🌸🌼"); # gives "🌸abc" because 🌸 is four bytes
```