The forge
Any word, in sigil
Sigil is a real encoding, not a cipher: it writes bytes as a single word in a 2,048-letter alphabet, eleven bits to a letter, and reads them back exactly. Coins on this pad are named with it.
In the sigil alphabet
ᓗᘾꘗચᙖᓛብൺනጰ
- Bytes in
- 12
- Letters out
- 10
- Reads back
- exactly
- As a coin name
- fits
| # | Letter | Script | Place | Eleven bits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ᓗ | Canadian syllabics | 922 | 01110011010 |
| 2 | ᘾ | Canadian syllabics | 1264 | 10011110000 |
| 3 | ꘗ | Vai | 1868 | 11101001100 |
| 4 | ચ | Gujarati | 134 | 00010000110 |
| 5 | ᙖ | Canadian syllabics | 1288 | 10100001000 |
| 6 | ᓛ | Canadian syllabics | 926 | 01110011110 |
| 7 | ብ | Ethiopic | 473 | 00111011001 |
| 8 | ൺ | Malayalam | 314 | 00100111010 |
| 9 | න | Sinhala | 361 | 00101101001 |
| 10 | ጰ | Ethiopic | 661 | 01010010101 |
The bytes are read as one number with a two-bit format marker set in their middle, multiplied by a prime chosen for the length (the check), then written eleven bits to a letter. Change any letter and the check fails; nothing reads back wrong in silence.
Fifteen scripts, one alphabet
Canadian syllabics · Ethiopic · Vai · Runic · Bamum · Devanagari · Sinhala · Telugu · Cham · Gujarati · Oriya · Malayalam · Saurashtra · Bengali · Tifinagh