Especially in Mandarin & Japanese speaking countries – for example: how does variable & function naming work if the language primarily consists of symbolic characters?
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You’re conflating cipher and code.
The most basic ciphers in the latin alphabet don’t make sense in an entirely symbolic language that lacks a basic alphabet. However, mandarin and japanese have alphabets.
Perhaps another way of looking at it – both English and French use the same alphabet, more or less. If I wrote this text in French, you’d likely need to decode it to understand it. This is despite not using any kind of cipher to obscure which characters are which.
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