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Ah its from XKCD (feb 2025), bit odd of the OP not to mention that

I think this might be more coincidental than derivative.

scream ciphers. a bit like back when we invented fire :p

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

Oh god, now we're gonna have two different standards for a scream cypher https://xkcd.com/927/

https://www.dcode.fr/scream-cipher-xkcd

I got nerd sniped by this xkcd and was happily working my way through an implementation and realized that the accent combiners work with any character. It is trivial to add bad steganography to your bad encryption.

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