Re: Rot13 and letters with accents

On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Otto Stolz wrote:

> Of course, you could come up with a Unicode-capable, standard  
> conforming
> rot13 implementation -- but what purpose could it ever serve? It would
> not disguise strings written in the n-1 non-Latin scripts, where n >  
> 60.
> So, if something useful is desired, you would have to define a rot-n
> scheme for every Script in Unicode, and put all of those schemes in a
> rot13 successor program. If such a programm would ever be devised,
> it could certainly be made standard conforming (including clause C6).
>


What you should use is rot32768 (applied on a per-plane basis).  Since  
the BMP and Plane 2 are both pretty full, most actual text would at  
least not contain large numbers of undefined characters (and Latin  
text would largely turn into Chinese, of course).  :-)

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John H. Jenkins
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