Why is the title tag of this Twitter page in reverse? (twitter.com) 1 points by mpgarate 11y ago ↗ HN
[–] bbrks 11y ago ↗ The guy's name on Twitter contains the Right-to-left mark[1][1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark
[–] gus_massa 11y ago ↗ Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1137/More details: Reading the source code from the web page, the username is \u202enahtanoJ where "\u202e" means> RLO | U+202E | RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE | Force following characters to be treated as strong right-to-left characters.See: http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Explicit_Directional_Overrid...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 23.1 ms ] thread[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark
More details: Reading the source code from the web page, the username is \u202enahtanoJ where "\u202e" means
> RLO | U+202E | RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE | Force following characters to be treated as strong right-to-left characters.
See: http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Explicit_Directional_Overrid...