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int getDecimalOfUtf8(char * utfPointer){
      int outPut = utfPointer[0];                             //sets the final output number to the value of the first byte of the utf-8 code
      int numStarting1 = 0;                                   //tracks number of 0's at beggining of character to see if utf-8
      while ((utfPointer[0] << numStarting1 & 0x80) ? 1 : 0)  //shifts bits of first byte of utfPointer and checks if the MSB is 1 or 0
      {
          numStarting1++;                                     //increments numStarting1
      }
  
      //At this point numStarting1 could be returned to know the length in bytes of the unicode character