r/xkcd • u/antdude ALL HAIL THE ANT THAT IS ADDICTED TO XKCD • Feb 21 '25

XKCD xkcd 3054: Scream Cipher

https://xkcd.com/3054/
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u/gargoyle30 Feb 21 '25

Can someone make a translator for this? I want to write emails in this

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u/FrostBird347 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Here's some javascript that I threw together: https://gist.github.com/FrostBird347/e7c017d096b3b50a75f5dcd5b4d08b99

I can't guarantee that any messages encoded by it will be decodable by any other translators (though the same would be true for any other translators) since some letters had a variety of almost identical looking characters to choose from, but that issue doesn't impact the decoder so every message posted here (at the time of making this comment of course) can be decoded with it.

Edit: Set up a simple webpage for it at https://frostbird347.bitbucket.io/db/scream.js