[forgotpwtomain]

> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort.

0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column without using said taboo glyph "0x65", against apathy and sloth I could not triumph and did submit for my stab at it, as short in duration as to boil liquid in a pot, was a dud.

[vxNsr]

Using encoding is cheating. Though I guess for her name you have no choice.

[komali2]

In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?

[tomjakubowski]

ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), Shift JIS, among others.

[komali2]

Am I tripping? I thought 65 was "A"?

[mikestew]

Can't help you with your use of hallucinogenic substances, but I think you're mixing your decimal and hex. Decimal 65 is a capital "A". Hex 65 (0x65) gives you lowercase "e".

[komali2]

Ooooooooh duhhhhhh. I applied "automatically ignore prefix" filter for some reason. Dumb brain.

[coldtea]

If we keep to text encodings, then it's easier to find an encoding where it doesn't.