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.

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The Black Hole (CSS)

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The Black Hole (HTML)

Spammers compendium entry - The Black Hole

Ze Foreign Accent

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The Big Picture

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Enigma

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