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I'll send you $20 for the interesting reply and reporting unicode bugs, if you want! (Feel free to email me your info.) But in the situation you mention, you care about the byte length, not the string length. Byte length is a totally valid thing to care about, but string length isn't needed.

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Bite lenght will be affected by the length of whatever is it that you are encoding, in this case an additional character would shift them by 8

I guess what I amsaying is:where are you marking the diffefence? any string (and all data) IS at the a series of encoded bites

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