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at April 27, 2009 12:04 by chrisaiv
Initial Code 
var string:String = "i am testing how many bytes ther are in this particular tweet.  I'm hoping it's roughly 255 because I will have answered the secret to life.";
 function getNumBytesUTF8 (s:String):Number {
  var byteArray:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
  byteArray.writeUTFBytes(s);
  return byteArray.length;
}
// Usage:
trace(getNumBytesUTF8( string ));  // 255
Initial URL 
http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000288.html
Initial Description 
This example explains why Twitter has a 140 character limit.  It shows that the DataType they are using to write to their database is a tinyblob or tinytext.
Initial Title 
AS3: How many bytes are in a UTF8 String
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ActionScript 3