Length parameter description confusing for constructors with sbyte*

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Type of issue

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Description

There are two constructors on this page which take an sbyte* input parameter. For each, the length parameter is described as:

The number of characters within value to use.

Unlike the other constructors on this page, using the term 'characters' for these two is misleading. The number of characters within an sbyte* is variable, depending on how the decoding works out. Fortunately, what this parameter really wants is a count of the number of sbytes, not the (more difficult to calculate) number of characters.

Proposed replacement text:

The number of sbytes within value to use.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string.-ctor?view=net-9.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System/String.xml

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