Some non-ASCII input mangled silently

[escalonn]

Due to a broken check in the codegolf function, non-Latin-1 characters (all those above U+00FF) at odd-numbered positions in the input string have their code point silently truncated to 8 bytes, instead of throwing an error so the user can be notified.

To Reproduce

1. Enter 'ज़' into input box, which has a non-Latin-1 character in index 1.
2. Click on "Golf it" button
3. Observe printed output exec(bytes('嬧‧','u16')[2:])
4. Verify that bytes('嬧‧','u16')[2:] evaluates to b"'[' ", which does not match the input code.

Expected behavior Error message displayed about non-ASCII characters, as it is for the input ' ज़' (space added to put the character into an even-numbered position).

Environment

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Brave Version 1.39.111 Chromium: 102.0.5005.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional context The code causing the issue is here Effectively c1 (the even-numbered character) is checked but c2 is ignored and subsequently truncated.

Also Handling of characters from the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+0080 to U+00FF) by this site is unclear. These are non-ASCII characters, but is there a reason to ban them from the input? Shouldn't the check really be > 255 instead of > 127?

[clemg]

Good catch! This is indeed a problem.

Would you like to submit a PR?