Re: Rot13 and letters with accents

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2007 - 12:38:03 CST

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William J Poser <wjposer at ldc dot upenn dot edu> wrote:

> Clearly the rot13 algorithm should be applied only to
> text that has been normalized to composed form.

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.

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Qbht Rjryy  *  Shyyregba, Pnyvsbeavn, HFN  *  ESP 4645  *  HGA #14
uggc://ubzr.ebnqehaare.pbz/~qrjryy
uggc://jjj1.vrgs.bet/ugzy.punegref/ygeh-punegre.ugzy
uggc://jjj.nyirfgenaq.ab/znvyzna/yvfgvasb/vrgs-ynathntrf  ˆ

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