Returns the count of bytes in +self+. Note that the byte count may be different from the character count (returned by #size): s = 'foo' s.bytesize # => 3 s.size # => 3 s = 'Привет' s.bytesize # => 12 s.size # => 6 s = 'こんにちは' s.bytesize # => 15 s.size # => 5 Related: see {Querying}[rdoc-ref:String@Querying].