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<h1 id="top">Unicode.byte_len</h1>
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<code class="sig">Unicode.byte_len(s) -&gt; int</code>
<div class="desc"><p>The number of <strong>bytes</strong> the string occupies — its storage size. This is what raw byte APIs and buffers care about, and it is greater than <a href="unicode-len"><code>len</code></a> whenever the text contains non-ASCII code points (each of which encodes to 2–4 bytes).</p></div>
<div class="params"><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="param" id="param-s"><code class="pname">s</code><span class="pdesc">the UTF-8 string</span></div></div>
<div class="examples"><h2>Example</h2><pre data-lang="ludic">program ByteLen {
entry {
print(Unicode.byte_len("hello")) # 5 (all ASCII)
}
}</pre></div>
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