Tool to obfuscate a text by adding diacritics to it. Diacritical obfuscation allows one to write a text barely readable by humans and not understandable by robots.
Zalgo Writing - dCode
Tag(s) : Character Encoding
dCode is free and its tools are a valuable help in games, maths, geocaching, puzzles and problems to solve every day!
A suggestion ? a feedback ? a bug ? an idea ? Write to dCode!
A Zalgo text is a message written with many diacritics using Unicode encoding.
Diacritics are symbols that modify letters or characters by adding a modifying grapheme to them. The most common diacritics are the acute accent é, the grave accent à, the circumflex î or the umlaut ö, but there are several dozen others like the tilde ñ, the cedilla ç, the macron, the brief etc.
These characters are coded with a Unicode code from the Combining diacritics marks table with addresses U+0300 to U+036F.
Example: dCode can be changed to d̹͍C̀̃o͒͟ḋ̇ẽ̗
Some characters are very small, others are bigger, dCode randomly draws one or two diacritic.
A simple method is to remove the accents, for example by going through the character string and keeping only the ASCII characters.
The other solution is to remove the Unicode codes from U+0300 to U+036F (but it is possible that some accents remain because some letters are encoded directly with accents in Unicode).
dCode retains ownership of the "Zalgo Writing" source code. Except explicit open source licence (indicated Creative Commons / free), the "Zalgo Writing" algorithm, the applet or snippet (converter, solver, encryption / decryption, encoding / decoding, ciphering / deciphering, breaker, translator), or the "Zalgo Writing" functions (calculate, convert, solve, decrypt / encrypt, decipher / cipher, decode / encode, translate) written in any informatic language (Python, Java, PHP, C#, Javascript, Matlab, etc.) and all data download, script, or API access for "Zalgo Writing" are not public, same for offline use on PC, mobile, tablet, iPhone or Android app!
Reminder : dCode is free to use.
The copy-paste of the page "Zalgo Writing" or any of its results, is allowed (even for commercial purposes) as long as you credit dCode!
Exporting results as a .csv or .txt file is free by clicking on the export icon
Cite as source (bibliography):
Zalgo Writing on dCode.fr [online website], retrieved on 2024-12-21,