Could the $len() identifier get a property .bytes added?

$len(text).bytes would be equivalent to $regex(text,/./g) in behavior,
in that it counts the individual byte characters instead of the UTF encoded (unicode) characters.

A lot of uses of $len() are to determine conformity of length limits (ie, topic length) which are calculated in bytes.


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