ers. The exception is for
characters outside the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, which are
represented with UTF-16 surrogate pairs, and thus will count as 2 characters
each.
</p>
<p>The reason this method counts UTF-16 code units, instead of Unicode code
points (true characters), is for Matlab compatibility.
</p>
<p>This is the string length method you probably want to use,
not <code class="code">strlength_bytes</code>.
</p>
<p>Returns double array of the same size as <var class="var">obj</var>. Returns N