¡uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ u ɐɔ ooʇ noʎ
From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
Date: | Saturday, December 6, 2008, 6:31 |
Herman Miller skrev:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Clever.
>>
>> It's just transliterating between normal Roman letters and Unicode
>> symbols that are upside-down versions of those letters. For instance,
>> it replaces U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y (y) with U+028E LATIN SMALL
>> LETTER TURNED Y (ʎ). But not all letters have "turned" versions, so
>> some of the transliterations are more creative; for instance, it uses
>> U+0183 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH TOPBAR (ƃ) as the upside down version
>> of U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G (g).
>>
>
> I wonder why it uses that instead of U+0253 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH
> HOOK (ɓ)?
>
Indeed, and U+05DF HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN for U+006C LATIN
SMALL LETTER L borders on the silly. It wight look good in
the particular font they're using, but it sure doesn't with
Linux font substitution!
/BP