Just butting in here, if I recall correctly, both the PHP-native mb_strlen() and the MediaWiki fallback mb_strlen() functions are considerably slower (1.5 to 5 times as slow). Unless there's another way to count characters for multibyte UTF strings, this would not be a feasible idea.
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