Monday, July 6, 2026

IOCCC now with added unicode

I was heartened to read the latest IOCCC winners including "Best Use of Unicode" https://www.ioccc.org/2025/ncw3/index.html 

In particular the following


which is something I've discussed before.  Interestingly you can view the code on GitHub and you'll note that they've still not fixed the hidden characters.


so a simple code review will not see the magic. Instead you'll need to review the code in an editor that cares not for your invisible characters.


Now we wait for someone to discover the Mongolian Vowel Separator...

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IOCCC now with added unicode

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