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28 August 2007

What is the ҉ character used for? →[More:] (Some of you may not be able to see that҉. If you can't҉, it's a circle of commas҉, html entity ampersand-hash-1161). I don't really feel like digging through the unicode spec to find out, so I'm hoping someone recognizes it.

҉ ҉. ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉҉. ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉҉. ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉҉. ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉ ҉

post by: cmonkey at: 09:53 | 13 comments

Arsehole. (er...not you, of course)

posted by elizard 28 August | 09:56

But it looks more like a sun. If suns were made of commas.

posted by cmonkey 28 August | 09:57

Or apostrophes.

posted by box 28 August | 10:01

goatse?

posted by desjardins 28 August | 10:03

*tries to come up with a witty comment re: where the sun shines, fails due to ridiculous earliness, lack of caffeination, and need to leave for work*

posted by elizard 28 August | 10:05

I *THINK* it's that unicode that supposedly makes everything you type after it appear backwards, but it never works for me, and especially doesn't work in Firefox. Occasionally it works in IE but that's too big of a price to pay.

posted by iconomy 28 August | 10:23

It's U+0489 COMBINING CYRLLIC MILLIONS SIGN. It's in the historical block.

posted by grouse 28 August | 11:08

It reverses Wikipedia's Recent Changes page. Link

posted by IndigoRain 28 August | 11:12

Thanks grouse!

None of these reverse text for me on Opera in SUSE Linux. I҈ guess it's just an IE thing?

(o҅_o҆)

posted by cmonkey 28 August | 11:22

It's the "combining Cyrillic millions" character.

The reversal is actually due to the RTL control character, not the entity itself. The control character is often present because Cyrillic numerals are written right-to-left or left-to-right dependent on context.

posted by dhartung 28 August | 12:48

Okay, so what's the 'combining Cyrillic millions' character used for? I know what all those words mean, but I can't parse why they might come together to form a character.

posted by mudpuppie 28 August | 15:10

weird, I just saw this question on digg.

posted by desjardins 28 August | 15:16

I actually saw it in the Daily WTF sidebar, but at the time no one said what it was, so I figured I'd turn here since I don't have an account there.

posted by cmonkey 28 August | 17:24

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