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+As described in [[UTF-8]] and in [[wp:UTF-8|Wikipedia]], UTF-8 is a popular encoding of (multi-byte) [[Unicode]] code-points into eight-bit octets.
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+The goal of this task is to write a encoder that takes a unicode code-point (an integer representing a unicode character) and returns a sequence of 1–4 bytes representing that character in the UTF-8 encoding. 
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+Then you have to write the corresponding decoder that takes a sequence of 1–4 UTF-8 encoded bytes and return the corresponding unicode character.
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+Demonstrate the functionality of your encoder and decoder on the following five characters:
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+<pre>
+Character   Name                                  Unicode    UTF-8 encoding (hex)
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+A           LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A                U+0041     41
+ö           LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS   U+00F6     C3 B6
+Ж           CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE           U+0416     D0 96
+€           EURO SIGN                             U+20AC     E2 82 AC
+𝄞           MUSICAL SYMBOL G CLEF                 U+1D11E    F0 9D 84 9E
+</pre>
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+Provided below is a reference implementation in Common Lisp.
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