Scala REPL

34 29 characters.

+"Happy new year to you!".sum 

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

'@'*' '-'"' 

or

"{yz}"map(_-'I'toChar) 

which have 11 and 22 chars respectively.

Scala, 32 29 bytes

+"Happy new year to you!".sum 

Try it online!

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

Scala, 11 bytes

'@'*' '-'"' 

Try it online!

Scala, 22 bytes

"{yz}"map(_-'I'toChar) 

Try it online!

Scala REPL

34 characters. Not the shortest. toInt is required to print the value of the char.

"Happy new year to you!".sum.toInt 

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

'@'*' '-'"' 

or

"{yz}".map(_-'I'toChar) 

which have 11 and 23 chars respectively.

Scala REPL

34 29 characters.

+"Happy new year to you!".sum 

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

'@'*' '-'"' 

or

"{yz}"map(_-'I'toChar) 

which have 11 and 22 chars respectively.

Scala REPL

34 characters. Not the shortest. toInt is required to print the value of the char.

"Happy new year to you!".sum.toInt 

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

'@'*' '-'"' 

which is 11 chars long and looks nice.

Scala REPL

34 characters. Not the shortest. toInt is required to print the value of the char.

"Happy new year to you!".sum.toInt 

Well ok if you really want it golfed with any chars, you can use:

'@'*' '-'"' 

or

"{yz}".map(_-'I'toChar) 

which have 11 and 23 chars respectively.