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Mangle that text more with Dystextia 1.2

This new version has performance improvements, and can now encode almost every character in normal English text to an obscure Unicode codepoint. Total obfuscation!

July 3, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Unicode spoofing: when an аррӏе isn’t an apple at all

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The word looks identical, but uses different Unicode characters. How can you tell the difference? There are important security implications, and more.

April 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Creaky old internet

You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?

January 8, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How fix a URL which breaks because of Unicode content

You paste a link containing Unicode characters such as accents, and it doesn’t work as you expect. Here’s how to fix it.

January 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to unscramble a downloaded file

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This is how to deal with an email attachment or web download which is not correctly recognised, to make it accessible.

September 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Easier than the Georgian verb

Not this year, but in the future we have resolved to holiday in Georgia – the country, not […]

April 27, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Words on Macs: 1 Code-Breaking with Unicode

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In the first of a series, this explains how Macs work with Unicode, how to get the best out of that, and how to fix its problems.

March 20, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

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