UTF-8 string delimiter

Question

I am parsing a binary protocol which has UTF-8 strings interspersed among raw bytes. This particular protocol prefaces each UTF-8 string with a short (two bytes) indicating the

Answer 1

i would use a delimiter which starts with 0x11...... but if you send raw bytes you will have to exclude this delimiter from the data\messages processed ,this means that if there is a user input similar to that delimiter, you will have to convert it.

if the user inputs any utf8 represented char you may simply send it as is.