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DIY: UTF-8 Validation

Explore how to validate UTF-8 encoding through implementing a function that checks if an array of integers forms valid UTF-8 data. Understand bit-level rules of UTF-8 characters and learn to apply them in Go for cyber security problem solving.

Problem description

Given an integer array data, return whether it is a valid UTF-8 encoding.

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

  • For a 1 byte character, the first bit of the packet is 0, followed by its Unicode code.
  • For an n-bytes character, the first
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