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Tokens arrive as byte fragments and a character can span several. Write the decoder that streams text correctly.

Decode fragmented UTF-8 with an incremental codec. Test malformed bytes, truncated endings and the boundary between byte decoding and event parsing.

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Decode fragmented UTF-8 with an incremental codec. Test malformed bytes, truncated endings and the boundary between byte decoding and event parsing.

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