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[1] See https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Implementation_issues and https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Conventions for details.

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There is also https://brainfuck.org/epistle.html, so we're pretty safe about the set of features that Brainfuck needs. At Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions, we're relying on a safe set of features any modern Brainfuck implementation provides, so we're safe and happy.

Oh well, TIL daniel b cristofani got the brainfuck.org domain. (The epistle was elsewhere when I first saw it.)

Yeah, unicode is a whole compatibility nightmare that I refuse to contemplate in the context of this shitpost. Don't quote me on this, but 30k 8-bit cells should be enough for anybody.

Luckily, you don't need Unicode, and we've endorsed the no-Unicode move in Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions. If one needs non-ASCII text, there always are ASCII encodings, like ArmASCII and romaji.

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