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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by Ancalagon on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:06PM (#31454068)
Don't forget: in 45 min, without bugs
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by maerF0x0 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @06:06PM (#31473281)
oh and do it in Go* ... Good F'ing Luck .

Go makes normal string operations tricky due to rune being an alias for int32, ranging a string gives []byte indexes ...

https://go.dev/play/p/33jCwNG6Eu6

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by Tomis02 on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:50AM (#31528435)
It's a bit sucky but you can use the standard library function "utf8.DecodeRuneInString(a)".
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