About Face

BWO!AboutFace!HTML

  14 February 2005

Description

Using the Unicode right-to-left override expressed as HTML entities (‮ and ‬) to reverse text

Submitted by Miles Libbey.

Example

Your B‮na‬k C‮dra‬ Link‮ni‬g

In August 2014, Trustwave researcher Brian Bebeau spotted an example where left-to-right override whole senteces were reversed.

Entries

Numbers by Painting

Spammers compendium entry - Numbers by Painting

Where are you going?

Spammers compendium entry - Where are you going?

Pump up the volume

Spammers compendium entry - Pump up the volume

Times Square

Spammers compendium entry - Times Square

Excel Sent

Spammers compendium entry - Excel Sent

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