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UTF-8 Validation

Last Updated: 13 Mar, 2021
Difficulty: Easy

PROBLEM STATEMENT

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A character in UTF-8 can be from 1 to 4 bytes long, subjected to the following rules:

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

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

You are given an array 'DATA' of integers representing the data, Your task is to find out whether the given array is a valid UTF-8 encoding.

Note:

The given input contains only integers, and 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.
Example:
Given data = [196, 128, 1], which represents the octet sequence: 11000101 10000010 00000001.

Return true because this is a valid UTF-8 sequence for a 2-byte character followed by a 1-byte character.

Input format :

The first line of input contains an integer T denoting the number of test cases.

The first line of each test case contains a single integer 'N', where ‘N’ is the number of elements of the array.

The second line of each test case contains 'N' space-separated integers, denoting the array/list 'DATA'.

Output format :

For each test case, return whether the array denotes a correct UTF-8 sequence or not.

The output of each test case will be printed in a separate line.

Note:

You don’t need to print anything, it has been already taken care of. You just need to implement the given function.

Constraints:

1 <= T <= 5
1 <= N <= 4
1 <= DATA[ i ] < 256

Where ‘DATA[ i ]’ is array element at index ‘i’.

Time limit: 1 sec