<p><pre><code>    codepoint -&gt; encoding in UTF-8

    U+022F    -&gt; C8 AF  
    U+042F    -&gt; D0 AF  
    U+062F    -&gt; D8 AF
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Remember, UTF-8 is self-synchronising: when you pick up at a random point within a stream, there is no ambiguity as to whether you are in the middle of a sequence or not. Valid lower codepoints appearing in the encoding of higher codepoints would violate this property.