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AUmrysh | 10 years ago

I think the line about "Mimic substitutes common ASCII characters for obscure homographs" has it backward. Shouldn't it say Mimic substitutes obscure homographs for common ASCII characters?

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pascalmemories|10 years ago

Never occurred to me before, but here "substitutes" reads to me as being commutative. I read both as having the same meaning. (i.e. you end up with unicode homographs replacing your ascii) Just me?

pbhjpbhj|10 years ago

Substitute works IMO the same way replace does[1].

Substitute poison for healthy food.

Substitute poison with healthy food.

The first means you take away healthy food and give poison. The later means you take away poison and give healthy food.

[1] Except that "replace X for Y" sounds weird, except in the common phrase "replace like for like" (and probably some others!).

dmd|10 years ago

In that case, you won't mind if I substitute poison for your favorite tasty beverage.

hollerith|10 years ago

Not to my ear. To my ear, substituting X for Y is the same thing as replacing Y with X.

lstamour|10 years ago

Technically, it does both ;-)

mafro|10 years ago

s/for/with