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Why is the title tag of this Twitter page in reverse?

1 pointsby mpgarateover 10 years ago

2 comments

gus_massaover 10 years ago
Obligatory xkcd: <a href="http://xkcd.com/1137/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1137&#x2F;</a><p>More details: Reading the source code from the web page, the username is \u202enahtanoJ where &quot;\u202e&quot; means<p>&gt; RLO | U+202E | RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE | Force following characters to be treated as strong right-to-left characters.<p>See: <a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Explicit_Directional_Overrides" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicode.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;tr9&#x2F;#Explicit_Directional_Overrid...</a>
bbrksover 10 years ago
The guy&#x27;s name on Twitter contains the Right-to-left mark[1]<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Right-to-left_mark</a>