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Use GetByteCount to return the number of bytes required to encode an array of Unicode characters, using UTF8Encoding.

using System; using System.Text; class MainClass{     public static void Main() {         // Unicode characters.         Char[] chars = new Char[] {             '\u0023', // #             '\u0025', // %             '\u03a0', // Pi             '\u03a3'  // Sigma         };         UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();         int byteCount = utf8.GetByteCount(chars, 1, 2);         Console.WriteLine("{0} bytes needed to encode characters.", byteCount);     } }