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The letter H has left-right symmetry with no need for translation. The letters W and A also have left-right symmetry if the /s on the left become \s on the right. Unfortunately there are not four letters such letters.

The letter H has left-right symmetry with no need for translation. The letters W and A also have left-right symmetry if the /s on the left become \s on the right. Unfortunately there are not four such letters (with the same sides having the same slopes of slashes).

The letter H has left-right symmetry with no need for translation. The letters W, A, and Y also have left-right symmetry if the /s on the left become \s on the right. Unfortunately no word exists made from these four letters.

The letter H has left-right symmetry with no need for translation. The letters W and A also have left-right symmetry if the /s on the left become \s on the right. Unfortunately there are not four letters such letters.

M, however, only introduces the other slash - if the rows for the right-half of the M are stored in reverse and with the wrong slashes, the base is kept at four and a post-decryption, post-reflection reversal of just these rows puts everything right again (this is the U4¦ in Link 1). This also means the character translation only needs to cater for \ becoming / and not the other way around too (i.e. Ṛ“\/”y; rather than Ṛ“\/“/\”y;).

M, however, only introduces the other slash - if the half rows for the M are stored in reverse and with the wrong slashes, the base is kept at four and a post-decryption, post-reflection reversal of just these rows puts everything right again (this is the U4¦ in Link 1). This also means the character translation only needs to cater for \ becoming / and not the other way around too (i.e. Ṛ“\/”y; rather than Ṛ“\/“/\”y;).