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Ideas for Hexlish improvement

In my initial off-the cuff idea the 'spacing characters that don't belong' can just be filtered out or parser-inserted where spaces are found in the text just prior to encoding.

Use the space character as a stream shift register or top-bit range toggle in the encoding logic. Then any punctuation character can be placed after the space. The parser will pick up the characters, re-encode them, and toggle back at the next space. A checker would need to look for double toggle characters in sequence.

This would necessitate swapping out one alphabet character and it would require slightly more complex logic for simple ciphers to use. But it goes in a doable direction.

Abbey Schnabel suggested using the dot (.) as a character and marker and rendering Hexlish as all lower-case. These are sound improvements to legibility.

At first glance, I can't help but think spaces would be better. As for rendering it all lower-case, it could actually be case insensitive, and every letter could be treated as lowercase or uppercase regardless, using a shift or toggle nybble in the encoding stream.

It is too complex for me to wrap my brain around all the potential quirks right now, so maybe the first week of next month I'll sit down and really brainstorm it on paper.

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Arguments concerning amendments to the Hexlish alphabet

by Abbey Schnabel

https://zenodo.org/records/24021289

"Increasing readability and usability over sentence borders by
introduction of special character transliterations"

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Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

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#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."