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Old 10-22-2015, 05:24 AM   #131
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
That may be OK for English (or even other languages with Latin-based alphabet), but applying that rule for Arabic, Japanese or Greek books will mean almost nothing is scrambled.

I say scramble all letters and digits (use Unicode properties to determine what's a letter or digit), at least by default. If those characters were part of the problem, then the scrambled book will not show the problem, and that can be used for debugging.
If you do scramble high-bit characters, I suggest using a similar high-bit character as a replacement. The reason being is that if any of these high-bit characters is causing a problem, than you want them where they are to be able to see the problem so someone can try to debug the prolem.
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