I dont get this actually. Say a UTF8 string is ae 31 c1 12. Now how do we decide whether it has the characters "31","c1","ae","12" or the characters are "ae 3

I dont get this actually. Say a UTF8 string is ae 31 c1 12. Now how do we decide whether it has the characters "31","c1","ae","12" or the characters are "ae 31" and "c1 12" or even "ae","31 c1" and "12".?? EDIT: Never mind!..found my answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543613/how-does-utf-8-variable-width-encoding-work http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543613/how-does-utf-8-va...