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<DD>Returns the number of characters represented by the given UTF string.
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>bytes</CODE> - the data containing the UTF string.<DD><CODE>offset</CODE> - the first byte to be converted.<DD><CODE>length</CODE> - the number of 