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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by acchow on Friday April 11, 2014 @04:45PM (#7575516)
You can have a multi-byte chained marker.

Use the first 7 bits of the byte as significant digits, the last bit as a boolean (the next byte is String payload or another byte for string length).

Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by wolf550e on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:57PM (#7575852)