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Dystextia

When you shouldn’t use unconventional Unicode text

What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?

September 1, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Dystextia version 1.7 is now a Universal App

Universal App to obfuscate text using unusual Unicode code points which look the same but are different.

August 19, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Go64, and keyboard layouts for Unicode obfuscation

Go64 checks for 32-bit apps, and Jan Kaiser has released keyboard layouts to type directly in obfuscated Unicode – both are free.

July 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Dystextia and Apfelstrudel updated

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Dystextia encodes and decodes obfuscated or spoofed Unicode text. Apfelstrudel analyses Unicode normalisation, ideal when working with text on computers.

June 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Text Utilities Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free utilities Dystextia, which demonstrates obfuscation of […]

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Two more apps notarized: RepairHomePermissions and Dystextia (Unicode obfuscator)

For your added security: the first to fix problems when your permissions go awry; the second to practise Unicode obfuscation.

November 9, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

More app updates: Unicode and text tools

Apfelstrudel, which explores Unicode normalisation and string operations; Dystextia for obfuscating Roman text using spoofing; and Rosettavert for converting between text encodings.

July 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updated free tools: should all now pass Gatekeeper checks

All these have now been updated and should pass Gatekeeper checks and run on both Sierra and High Sierra.

September 27, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Dystextia, Apfelstrudel, Rosettavert and unorml updated for High Sierra

Tools for examining Unicode normalisation, converting between text encodings, and for obfuscating text using similar Unicode characters.

September 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

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