Re: ¡uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ u ɐɔ ooʇ noʎ

Mark J. Reed skrev:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>> Clearly Unicode needs to include upside down letters, mirror image letters, and
>> upside down mirror image letters. How could they have overlooked such an
>> obvious necessity?
>
> It's an outrage, I tell you.  Petition the Consortium!
>
> Although I'd much rather see a "rotate" option in CSS...
>
>
Unicode at least sometimes gives specific meanings to the
terms inverted, turned, reversed and rotated, all of which
except rotated exist for small capital R, as shown at

<http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm94/melroch_aestan/?action=view&current=rotation-unicode.png>
<http://tinyurl.com/6nyov2>

A forward rotated m strangely is called "sideways turned".

Clearly a CSS feature "rotated" with the values
"inverted, turned, reversed, rotated" or "sideways",
or a degree value or a percentage value would be
useful.

The downside would be that it wouldn't carry
when a page is saved as plain text.  As it
happens I have devised half a way around this,
namely to include markup which is normally
not displayed but turns up when CSS is turned
off or unavailable as when saved as text or
in a text browser (Lynx).

E.g. to simulate a small capital F the HTML
would be:

<span style="display:
none;">&lt;small&gt;</span><small>F</small><span
style="display: none;">&lt;/small&gt;</span>

Which would normally show up as a small F but as
"<small>F</small> when viewed in text only, or to
take the example I've actually used: there is no
subscript s in Unicode, so I simulated it with

t<span style="display: none;">_</span><sub>s</sub>

which shows up as "t_s" in text only but as a t with
a small subscript s with working CSS.

/BP