Re: Rot13 and letters with accents

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2007 - 12:46:11 CST

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    Hello,

    Andreas Prilop wrote:
    > So with respect to rot13, U+00E3 and U0061 U+0303
    > are not equivalent.

    This means that a naïve rot13 implementation will not be standard conforming
    w. r. t. <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch03.pdf>, clause C6.
    But then, rot13 has never claimed to be so.

    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).

    Best wishes,
       Otto Stolz

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