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All String values are encoded as a sequence of UTF-8 characters without a null terminator and preceded by the length in bytes.

The length in bytes is encoded as Int32. A value of −1 is used to indicate a ‘null’ string.

Figure 4 illustrates how the multilingual string “水Boy” should be encoded in a byte stream.

Figure 4 – Encoding Strings in a binary stream