Re: Rot13 and letters with accents

[email protected] (William J Poser)
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
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>Actually I was going to go the other way: the text should first be
>normalized to *decomposed* form (NFD).  For maximum obfuscation, you
>want as many Basic Latin letters as possible in the source text.
>Precomposed letters-with-diacritic don't get transformed at all, which
>defeats the purpose.

True. But then even better would be to Unicode-ify rot13 so that
it affects non-ASCII characters. For example, restricting ourselves
to the BMP, we could have rot7FFF, which would produce meaningless
strings of CJK characters from (extended) Latin text.

Bill
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