The vector pallet itself uses 16 bytes. That means 64 characters only eat up 144 Bytes of flash. This is exactly the kind of hack we were hoping to see in the 1 kB challenge.

Num_Bytes: Identifies the number of characters you want MIDB to return from the text in bytes. How to use the MID function in Excel. Open Microsoft Excel. Use an existing table or create one.

With multi-byte, variable-width character strings, the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text.