Re: Rot13 and letters with accents
Simon Montagu <[email protected]>
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William J Poser wrote: >> 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. That's an amusing idea, but imagine the chaos when certain Yi syllables are transformed to Bidi control codes