From Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter:
Language as cryptography. These stories talk about a secret language used
in China. The second story mentions that the Imperial Chinese punishment
for inventing a secret language was death.
http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9910/12/text/world5.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/101899/chinese_lingo.sml
The stories note that it uses a written script different from normal
Chinese. I suspect this one won't make it into Unicode, but the
storys are interesting.
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