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Use the GetByteCount to get the number of bytes required to encode an array of Unicode characters, using UTF8Encoding
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Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings
Class UTF8EncodingExample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim chars() As Char = {ChrW(35), ChrW(37), ChrW(8), ChrW(930)}
Dim utf8 As New UTF8Encoding()
Dim byteCount As Integer = utf8.GetByteCount(chars, 1, 2)
Console.WriteLine("{0} bytes needed to encode characters.", byteCount)
End Sub
End Class
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