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VB.Net Tutorial » Development » UniCode   7.29.3.Use the GetByteCount to get the number of bytes required to encode an array of Unicode characters, using UTF8Encoding. 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 7.29.UniCode 7.29.1. UI with UniCode 7.29.2. Decode a range of elements from a byte array and store them in a Unicode character array. 7.29.3. Use the GetByteCount to get the number of bytes required to encode an array of Unicode characters, using UTF8Encoding. 7.29.4. Encode Unicode characters array and store the encoded bytes in a byte array.