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Nov 26, 2019 at 18:46 comment added Nick Kennedy @DomQ As per my previous comment, there are a number of languages used regularly here that have single byte encodings with their own codepage. These include 05AB1E, Jelly, APL, Charcoal, Stax. The accepted standard for scoring them is to score them based on bytes <b>in their own codepage</b>. It is possible to have a 42 byte file, pass it to the Jelly interpreter and get the output above. Note these code pages are part of the language. In general, inventing a codepage for a specific answer (i.e. with knowledge of the question) is not so acceptable. There are also posts on meta about this.
Nov 26, 2019 at 18:42 comment added DomQ ah well, I didn't know that. (But I didn't downvote either.)
Nov 26, 2019 at 11:27 comment added Nick Kennedy @DomQ what do you mean? If you’re discussing the scoring for code golf, the established standard on this site is to use language specific encodings where they exist. Jelly has its own 256 character code page linked to through the Jelly header on my answer. I note a couple of my answers including this one were downvoted recently; if that was you and it was for this reason, I’d respectfully ask you to reconsider since this is the way this SE site has agreed to function.
Nov 26, 2019 at 11:20 comment added DomQ Again, those are characters not bytes.
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