Re: Fun with Unicode spoofing

From: =?utf-8?Q?António MARTINS-Tuválkin?= (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 14:27:27 CDT

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    On 2008.08.15, 19:20, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:

    > ʞɔɐqpǝǝɟ uʍop ǝpısdn
    > • +++++++ɐ ¡uoıʇɔɐsuɐɹʇ ʇɐǝɹƃ¡ʇuǝɯʎɐd ʇsɐɟ
    > ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ noʎ ʞuɐɥʇ 'ppɐ oʇ pǝʇuɐʍ osןɐ ı
    >
    > Impressive, eh?

    Indeed! Even if this is an example on how *not* to use Unicode — it is
    hard to resist the temptation of fooling around with typical glyphs for
    more than 100k characters (especially for those of us raised in the dire
    constrains of seven-bit ASCII-art ;-).

    I particularly like his "l"s (U+05DF, final nun!), and "g"s (U+183, "d"
    with topbar!) — while "q"s for "b"s and "p"s for "d"s (and vice-versa)
    are still cool, even if classic.

    My own modest attempt surely pales in view of this, although I could
    (un)excuse myself with something more than mere fun: See "edp" vs. "qbɘ"
    at < http://flagspot.net/flags/pt$edp.html#edp_rev > on both sides of the
    same flag. 

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