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UTF-8 Validation

arraybit manipulation

Problem Statement

Given an integer array data representing the data, return whether it is a valid UTF-8 encoding (i.e. it translates to a sequence of valid UTF-8 encoded characters).

A character in UTF8 can be from 1 to 4 bytes long, subjected to the following rules:

For a 1-byte character, the first bit is a 0 , followed by its Unicode code.

For an n-bytes character, the first n bits are all one's, the n + 1 bit is 0 , followed by n - 1 bytes with the most significant 2 bits being 10 .

This is how the UTF-8 encoding would work:

Number of Bytes | UTF-8 Octet Sequence

--------------------+-----------------------------------------

1 | 0xxxxxxx

2 | 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx

3 | 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx

4 | 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx

x denotes a bit in the binary form of a byte that may be either 0 or 1 .

Note: The input is an array of integers. Only the least significant 8 bits of each integer is used to store the data. This means each integer represents only 1 byte of data.

Examples

Example 1
Input: data = [197,130,1]
Output: true
data represents the octet sequence: 11000101 10000010 00000001. It is a valid utf-8 encoding for a 2-bytes character followed by a 1-byte character.
Example 2
Input: data = [235,140,4]
Output: false
data represented the octet sequence: 11101011 10001100 00000100. The first 3 bits are all one's and the 4th bit is 0 means it is a 3-bytes character. The next byte is a continuation byte which starts with 10 and that's correct. But the second continuation byte does not start with 10, so it is invalid.

Constraints

1 <= data.length <= 2 * 10 ^4
0 <= data[i] <= 255
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Topic Info
ModuleDSA
CategoryArray
Sub-topicBit Manipulation
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arraybit manipulation
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