There are descriptions of how a codepoint gets encoded in bytes. You can simply find then at Wikipedia. That defines where the bits of the codepoint go, and also how to recognize which bytes belong together.

For UTF-8 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8​ you can see in the encoding section that t…

I started in C, and moved on to C#, java, lua, python, and probably several more.

Like was stated above, languages are like tools in a tool box, some are a better fit for different situations.

Thinking on my game dev career, I can see where knowing the low level stuff, like C teaches, that does come …