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21 December 2007

!namtab ,sdrawkcassab yloh i was just in Gmail typing a reply. i swear to God my letters started appearing from down-to-up and backwards. see for yourself. has this ever happened to you? do I have a virus? achooo.
so what's your weirdness of late? full moon (and solstice and, of course, Xmas) are coming up over just the next few days...

post by: shane at: 20:55 | 10 comments

Have you somehow ended up with the unicode right-to-left character in your reply (a copy-and-paste, or in the original email)?

posted by matthewr 21 December | 21:04

Have you somehow ended up with the unicode right-to-left character ..?

WOW. I didn't know there was such a thing. I really don't think so and I don't see how, although I've shut the browser window now, so i can't tell.

Thanks, though. I didn't know that character existed. I'm Googling now. Cool. Would that make text appear backwards as I type, or after? Bee-zarre.

posted by shane 21 December | 21:11

‏After, I think. In HTML, it's ‏. It's what's used to make those backwards comments you see on Mefi every now and again. I think it's stripped out on Metachat. In Firefox, you can tell if it's been used on a page by looking at the text cursor - there might be a very small horizontal line near the top. The direction of the line indicates the direction of text on the page. ‏

posted by matthewr 21 December | 21:17

Naw, as I typed, the letters appeared on the page in reverse order. It was a trip. I think the HTML character would only have affected it after. That's a nifty code, though.

posted by shane 21 December | 21:39

The last few days I have been getting strange characters in my form fields when I do some things of the googlish variety.

posted by mischief 21 December | 21:44

˙sı ɯǝlqoɹd ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ ǝǝs ʇ,uop ı

posted by hangashore 22 December | 00:29

I believe hangashore's post deserves some sort of recognition.

I'm on my feet ~~scratching my head~~applauding wildly.

posted by GeckoDundee 22 December | 10:52

Cheers GD - I figured it'd be a snap to read for you Antepodean types.

Oh, and here's a site you'll positively Flip over.

posted by hangashore 22 December | 11:30

Antipodean. Gah.

posted by hangashore 22 December | 13:18

˙˙˙ǝq ll,ı llǝʍ

posted by shane 22 December | 17:19

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