Arguments concerning amendments to the Hexlish alphabet
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper is a response to B. R. Buckbriar: ''Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet''. The Hexlish alphabet proposed by Byrl Raze Buckbriar offers a way of transliterating english text in a way that is both human readable and only requires 16 distinct letters, allowing for a 4 bit encoding of each characters. This system works reasonably well for singular words, however human readability suffers as soon as words have to be separated. Since the 16 character alphabet does not allow for special characters such as spaces, Buckbriar suggests the usage of character duplications or insertion of erroneous characters to separate words, which causes words to melt together and requires substantial effort when reading. This paper explores ways to include special characters in the alphabet while preserving 4 bit encodability.
Author: Schnabel, Abbey
Language: English
Subfield: Theoretical Computer Science
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225417090