Scream Cipher: Using Unicode A-Variations for Humorous Text Encoding
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alexmolas
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Summary
The article introduces a humorous 'scream cipher' concept that maps English letters to various Unicode variations of the letter 'A' (such as Á, Ă, Ắ, etc.), creating a playful substitution cipher. It demonstrates how there are more Unicode 'A' characters than letters in the English alphabet, and provides a Python dictionary implementation for both encoding and decoding.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledToday I learned there are more 'Latin capital letter A' Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet
You know what that means, it's time to scream
CIPHER = {"A":"A", # Round-trip!
UNCIPHER = {v: k for k, v in CIPHER.items()}
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