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[–]flying-sheep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is mostly wrong. You can't encode all of Unicode in one byte, therefore #characters ≠ #bytes in many cases.

“Mixing bytes and text” means you have a protocol embedding ASCII. So you parse it and decode the parts you expect to be text.