If the string is of length 16 or below (not counting null terminator) the encoder will try to make the transformation into an integer that can be delta-stored in Simple-8b.

The unsigned integer will be computed using reverse order of the string with the null terminator omitted. This means that the last character in the string will be represented as the least significant byte in the integer using little-endian byte order. No size is stored, which works as long as there are no leading NULL characters in the input string.