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.
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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,
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??????????lol Oh My God this is so cool and brilliant I am going to feature it on my blog lol hehe
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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.
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?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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