Monday, December 1, 2008

Inverted Text Demystified

The Extended ISO 8859 characterset has nearly all of the inverted Latin small letters with a few exceptions which enables one to create inverted text messages for a comic effect. The special characters are designated by a character entity such as ð for the letter ð or "eth". And the string of characters pɔqɐ will produce the text "pɔqɐ" which is "abcd" inverted. Using the same method one can produce a line of inverted text,
¡ƨɪɥʇ pɐǝɹ oʇ pɐǝɥ ɹnoʎ uo puɐʇƨ oʇ ǝʌɐɥ ʎɐɯ noʎ

(The blogger HTML editor was used to convert the code to the inverted text.)

letterchr
num
result
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
592
113
596
112
477
607
595
613
618
638
670
1503
623
117
111
100
98
633
424
647
110
652
653
120
654
122
ɐ
q
ɔ
p
ǝ
ɟ
ɓ
ɥ
ɪ
ɾ
ʞ
ן
ɯ
u
o
d
b
ɹ
ƨ
ʇ
n
ʌ
ʍ
x
ʎ
z

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