A simple command line tool to encode text as a series of element symbols.
For example the word satire may be written SAtIRe where S, At, I and Re are the chemical symbols for Sulfur, Astatine, Iodine and Rhenium, respectively. The tool will avoid reusing elements as much as possible to give a more varied output, so "noses noses" encodes as "NOsEs NoSeS", using six different elements.
To convert short snippets, you can pass the text using the flag -s:
element_code.py -s/--string "some text"
As most words in the english language (around 80%) are not writable using the standard element symbols, by omitting flags the tool can be run in interactive mode for faster testing:
element_code.py
The tool can also be run on an entire text file and will maintain formatting (the f):
element_code.py -f/--file somefilepath.txt
If the file can be fully encoded, the tool will create two new files for its output:
somefilepath_encoded.txt: contains the encoded result.somefilepath_elements.txt: contains the list of elements used, in order.
Due to the high failure rate, it is strongly suggested to run on short snippets of a text before attempting an entire file.
The file common_encodable_words.txt contains a list of a thousand common words (according to the Google Trillion Word Corpus) which can be encoded by the tool. This might be helpful for anyone searching for sentences.
The encoder uses the symbols listed in elements.csv, so a different set of symbols can be used by editing this file. Symbol matching is case-insensitive and later copies of the same symbol will overwrite earlier ones.