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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
This "sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to main. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified challenge on ...
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Meta question: counting bytes [duplicate]
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Many languages used here have characters outside the ASCII character set, yet the headlines of answers written in such languages often say n bytes, when ...
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Online tool to determine number of bytes for UTF-8 characters?
Is there an online tool that will tell me the number of bytes in a UTF-8 character? Or, if not, how do I determine this?
I'm currently trying to determine the number of the bytes for the left and ...
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How to count bytes FAQ
We've got a lot of questions asking how to count the bytes in different situations. This question is here to put them all in one spot.
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How to count "interactive" answers ...
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When can APL characters be counted as 1 byte each?
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The question of APL's encoding often comes up, and many times a helpful soul links to Wikipedia's article on the APL EBCDIC codepage. However, each implementation of APL has its own ...
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What standard should be used for [code-golf] byte counts? [duplicate]
Some languages, like V and Charcoal use their own character systems. In the meantime, next to all languages support common (one ...
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Jelly- can we really score it by character count? [duplicate]
Jelly is one of those languages that doesn't use ANSI text in its code. Why should we score Jelly by its character count when each character can take up to 4 bytes?
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How to score a golflang with a 9-bit character set [duplicate]
So I’ve been thinking about creating a golflang somewhat inspired by Jelly, but I’ve decided for it to be encoded in a 9-bit codepage, so that there are 512 possible characters to use. I can come up ...
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Introducing a New Golf Language
So over the past week I've developed Just Another Interpreted Stack-Base Language (JAISBaL for short), and I had a few questions:
Is there any reason JAISBaL would be illegal to use for the general <...
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Should locale be explicitly specified?
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Some code-golf answers assume a specific locale. For example this answer assumes a locale of en_US.UTF-8. If the default locale on a ...
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Should a character encoding that can't actually be used by a compiler/interpreter be allowed?
Suppose you are answering a code-golf challenge in a language whose interpreter can only use UTF-8. Say you have a program that uses some code points in the range 128-255, but not higher. Would it ...
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