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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?Strangely, it doesn’t seem to work as well on Firefox 3
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? yeah?
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?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. :/
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? this isn’t working
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not sure what he was talking about none of the 6 accounts i brought up had vm :P
?does this work?
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? epic fail ? isn’t working
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?this is a test
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? In IE not FF3
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? 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