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Type Backwards with Combining Cyrillic Millions Sign U+0489

What 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 - ʇxǝʇ pǝddılɟ

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.



41 Responses

  1. 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)

    Pyro789x posted on 07/09/2007
  2. Hey Pyro, you excalmation marks works too :-)
    ??????????!It works. This is amazing.

    QuickOnlineTips posted on 09/09/2007
  3. Adolf – At comment 25 you even managed to get it in your comments. Your name, date and links are all reversed. Wow!

    QuickOnlineTips posted on 09/09/2007
  4. ?
    COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN
    ?

    Michel posted on 10/09/2007
  5. Retry?

    Michel posted on 10/09/2007