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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025, yeti wrote:

A=CC=8B=C3=A4=C3=A1=C3=A3=C3=A3 =C8=81a=CC=B0a=C4=81?!

=C4=80a=CC=B0a=C3=A2=E1=BA=A1=C3=A3 =C4=81=C3=A5 ...

a=CC=B0=C4=81=C4=81a=CC=AF=C3=A3://a=CC=BD=E1=BA=A1a=CC=A7a=CC=B2.a=CC=

=A7=C3=A5=C7=8E/3054/

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Damn, yeti, you caused me to spend part of my Sunday morning doing this!

anyway, I was in too deep when the message became understandable, so
here it goes if someone wants to read it and see in "real time" how
every step was added :D

cat message | sed s/=C4=81/t/g | sed s/a=CC=B0/h/g | sed s/a=CC=AF/p/g | se=
d s/=C3=A3/s/g |
sed s/a=CC=A7/c/g | sed s/=C3=A5/o/g | sed s/=C7=8E/m/g | sed s/=C8=81/w/g =
| sed s/=C3=A2/n/g |
sed s/=E1=BA=A1/k/g | sed s/=C4=80/T/g | sed s/=C3=A4/u/g | sed s/A=CC=8B/G=
/g | sed s/=C3=A1/e/g |
sed s/=C8=83/r/g | sed s/=E1=BA=A3/i/g | sed s/=C3=83/S/g | sed s/A=CC=A7/C=
/g | sed s/A=CC=B0/H/g |
sed s/a=CC=A6/y/g | sed s/a=CC=AE/f/g | sed s/=C3=A0/v/g | sed s/=C8=80/W/g=
| sed s/=E1=BA=A0/K/g |
sed s/a=CC=B2/d/g | sed s/=C4=83/l/g | sed s/a=CC=BD/x/g | sed s/=C3=84/U/g=
| sed s/a=CC=8B/g/g |
sed s/=C8=A7/b/g | sed s/=E2=B1=A5/z/g

anyway, I didn't use the recommended technology, but went step by step
instead. The use of cat in this case was not useless, it kept the
filename at the beginning and let me just press up and keep adding pipes
:D

Have a nice day everyone! and thanks for the Sunday morning puzzle,
yeti!

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jmcs <jmcs@tilde.club> wrote:

Damn, yeti, you caused me to spend part of my Sunday morning doing
this!

Oooops!

anyway, I was in too deep when the message became understandable, so
here it goes if someone wants to read it and see in "real time" how
every step was added :D

cat message | sed s/ā/t/g | sed s/a̰/h/g | sed s/a̯/p/g | sed s/ã/s/g | sed s/a̧/c/g | sed s/å/o/g | sed s/ǎ/m/g | sed s/ȁ/w/g | sed s/â/n/g | sed s/ạ/k/g | sed s/Ā/T/g | sed s/ä/u/g | sed s/A̋/G/g | sed s/á/e/g | sed s/ȃ/r/g | sed s/ả/i/g | sed s/Ã/S/g | sed s/A̧/C/g | sed s/A̰/H/g | sed s/a̦/y/g | sed s/a̮/f/g | sed s/à/v/g | sed s/Ȁ/W/g | sed s/Ạ/K/g | sed s/a̲/d/g | sed s/ă/l/g | sed s/a̽/x/g | sed s/Ä/U/g | sed s/a̋/g/g | sed s/ȧ/b/g | sed s/ⱥ/z/g

A similar solution is in the discussion of this mentioned in the thread
start. My first reflex for such always seems to be AWK. Habits.

anyway, I didn't use the recommended technology, but went step by step instead.

So I hacked something together with AWK, currently encoder and decoder
in own programs and the decoder uses 'gsub()' in a loop and so is kind
of comparable to your decoding 'sed' pipe.

The use of cat in this case was not useless, it kept the filename at
the beginning and let me just press up and keep adding pipes
:D

Sometimes readability is improved by a redundant 'cat' and that is
reason enough to use it.

I'm waiting for more ideas to make this more compact and when I'm done
doing this in OneTrueAWK, I may or may not use this as reason to look at Unicode via C. Strange that I did not need to do that so far. And is
'tr' capable to handle Unicode? I never tried. So much to play with!
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jmcs <jmcs@tilde.club> wrote:

Damn, yeti, you caused me to spend part of my Sunday morning doing this!

anyway, I was in too deep when the message became understandable, so
here it goes if someone wants to read it and see in "real time" how
every step was added :D

cat message | sed s/?/t/g | sed s/a?/h/g | sed s/a?/p/g | sed s/?/s/g |
sed s/a?/c/g | sed s/?/o/g | sed s/?/m/g | sed s/?/w/g | sed s/?/n/g |
sed s/?/k/g | sed s/?/T/g | sed s/?/u/g | sed s/A?/G/g | sed s/?/e/g |
sed s/?/r/g | sed s/?/i/g | sed s/?/S/g | sed s/A?/C/g | sed s/A?/H/g |
sed s/a?/y/g | sed s/a?/f/g | sed s/?/v/g | sed s/?/W/g | sed s/?/K/g |
sed s/a?/d/g | sed s/?/l/g | sed s/a?/x/g | sed s/?/U/g | sed s/a?/g/g |
sed s/?/b/g | sed s/?/z/g

I single sed invocation with as many s/ commands would be better,
and then perhaps a single tr(1) invocation even better?
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... seen looking via Gwene at HN ...

SCREAM CIPHER (“ǠĂȦẶAẦ ĂǍÄẴẶȦ”)
Seth Larson @ 2025-09-13
<https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher>
|
| You've probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream
| cipher😱? Today I learned there are more “Latin capital letter A”
| Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet.

... with encoder and decoder of something like in the XKCD post but with different "accents". :.(

Hacker News
Scream cipher (sethmlarson.dev)
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287474>
.
.
.

SethMLarson / 20250920T132217
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313154>
|
| OP here, I either didn't know or completely forgot this XKCD existed
| and it resurfaced as a good idea haha! Time to update the post lol
.

Now 2½ or more variants are in the wild. :.(

My 2nd version allows lowercase, but uses the XKCD "accents", should ™should™ be compatible.
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