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Type Backwards with Combining Cyrillic Millions Sign U+0489
August 27th, 2007What happens when you paste the Combining Cyrillic Millions Sign, a Unicode Character labeled U+0489 and start typing – a strange phenomenon happens and you start typing all words backwords.
Once I spotted this tip, I could not stop having fun with it. It was even more amazing than writing Flipped text like this – ?x?? p?dd?1?
The Cyrillic block In Unicode extends from U+0400 to U+052F. The characters in the range U+0460–U+0489 are historic letters not used now. However, Combining Cyrillic Millions Sign seems to contain hidden control characters next to it that force change of text directionality. Of course there are many Unicode control characters that help in bidirectional text control (override to flow from right-to-left as in Arabic)
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Simply COPY the Combining Cyrillic Millions Sign above and PASTE in any text form (try our comment form below and post what you get!), then start typing and see how your text magically starts typing backwards.
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U+0489 Now is the time for all good browns to come to the aid of their foxes.
Interesting :) On a Mac it displays backwards in Firefox but forwards in Safari.
??????????????????OK, now this is really craZY!!! And how cool! I like it, LOL??????????????????
Neat… But wait, it isn’t STOPPING!!! Aaaaaaa!
It’s the goofy symbol not the +U0489
Might help to make that clearer.
?Does it work.
Third try??????????????????
Mod: if this doesn’t work you might want to update your post.
??????????????????Oh, I get it now! Put the symbol and then type. Doesn’t follow the wrap.
Wordpress doesn’t recognize the symbol. Darn.
Wow thats cool. now,
??????????wow thats cool
??????????lol Oh My God this is so cool and brilliant I am going to feature it on my blog lol hehe
??????????Does this really work?
U+0489 Cool post. Thanks for the info!
?ok this is not workin is it?
?its not working.
U+0489i don’t think it’s working. :(
????????????Ahh this is very very funny hehe
I found that the browser needs to have character encoding set to unicode for this to work. Works well for me in Firefox, but not in IE7.
wait, how do you work it?
okay, so i paste:
U+0489and this is supposed to be backwards? or what do i do?
?maybe…
?This is pretty cool lol.
I don’t think it’s working in Safari though. :(?
Doesn’t work for me.
?See?
?voglio proprio vedere se non funziona porco…
Actually, you’re very wrong. The magic is in the 10 characters that you don’t see, before the combining cyrillic millions sign. Don’t believe me? I have now pasted these 10 characters below an exclamation mark. The exclamation mark below is now endowed with the same magical propeties. (To see the 10 symbols, try pasting it into a .txt file)
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One further thing. Websites aren’t designed with these 10 characters in mind; you can make a lot of websites look very strange by pasting it into certain search fields (like wikipedia, for example)
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Hey Pyro, you excalmation marks works too :-)
??????????!It works. This is amazing.
Adolf – At comment 25 you even managed to get it in your comments. Your name, date and links are all reversed. Wow!
funktioniert nicht-.-?
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COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN
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Retry?
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??????????es funzioniert!
U+0489im not sure if this works..
U+0489Is it working?
??????????????????lol, I love this in the Priest forums for WoW
?, e voilá…
I can’t get it to work??????????
U+0489 hi so how does it work
U+0460 hi its not working U+0489
U+0489 it wont work
??????????????????hello everyone how r u wowo this is cool
U+0489 testing, testing.
? hmm
?hello
?fail
?how do you get this to work?
?hello everyone, im bored and this isnt working
??????????how does i type backwards?
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??????????WEEEEEeeeeeeee ok.. this is really strange la. and stop complaining you little bitch. O_o what did i say?
?test
?f4il
??????????O hay guise. wats goin on in dis thread?
??????????OMG
??????????????????It works in firefox. I am typing with it now.
?hello world?
?ronald
?Did it work?
U+0489 is there a way to get this to work on msn in your display name
but it doesnt work in MS Word?
?lolwut
U+0489 wat u r gey
? this does not work
? dont believe it
?How do I shot web?
?Strangely, it doesn’t seem to work as well on Firefox 3
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? yeah?
LULWUT?
?It’s not working for me =/ can some please help me? Is it because I’m using Windows or something?
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?Testing. Using IE on WinXP. No clue if it’ll work. :/
?omg
? this isn’t working
? desu desu desu desu desu
not sure what he was talking about none of the 6 accounts i brought up had vm :P
?does this work?
? hello
?Ok so this is ? not working.
I’m not?sure?why?.
? epic fail ? isn’t working
?Testing
testing
?this is a test
test?
?trying it out ?
is this working?
?gnikrow sith si ?
? In IE not FF3
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????I think i’m getting it, maybe…maybe
? oh come on
lol no way?
it works!
don’t select the text moving the cursor, only put the mouse over it and select it by pressing double click, now past it and presto!
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I actually need to find out how to do this for transfer paper…U+0489
Brent it is getting difficult to creatively leave you feedback