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¡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