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In most cases, the distinction between the number of elements and number of bytes is moot: There is a clear mapping between the two, and it is easier to think in terms of number of elements anyway. Unfortunately, this issue can become muddled when working with multibyte strings as because the logical entity being manipulated differs from that of the type being used to implement it. Here, it is important to remember that the type of the array is a character and not a multibyte character. Accordingly, the number of elements in the array is represented as a number of characters.
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