The HTML Entity for changing the directionality of text from right-to-left (rtl) is 8238. To change it back to left-to-right (ltr), use 8237.
Repeating the paragraph above with rtl and ending with the ltr:
”The HTML Entity for changing the directionality of text from right-to-left (rtl) is 8238. To change it back to left-to-right (ltr), use 8237.”
Possible legitimate use: if it is used in a profile that might be scraped, it will likely throw unexpected results, such as reversing text in auto-generated spam email.
But, there’s a few situations where this could be used to amusing effect or to be jackass. Don’t be a jackass.
h/t Tim Carry.
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