 - the characters that would be converted.<DD><CODE>offset</CODE> - the first character to be converted.<DD><CODE>length</CODE> - the number of characters to be converted.
<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>the byte length of the equivalent UTF data.</DL>
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getCharLength</H3>
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public static int <B>getCharLength</B>(byte[]&nbsp;bytes)
                         throws <A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/IllegalArgumentExc