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(inverted (upside-down) chars)
-- Can i enter them in Gmail without going to a Web site?

¿ǝʇᴉs qǝM ɐ oʇ ƃuᴉoƃ ʇnoɥʇᴉʍ lᴉɐɯꓨ uᴉ ɯǝɥʇ ɹǝʇuǝ ᴉ uɐƆ --
(sɹɐɥɔ (uʍop-ǝpᴉsdn) pǝʇɹǝʌuᴉ)


(up-dn)

__________________

Is there a nice Web page or a Youtube Clip that
explains these inverted (upside-down)  characters? 
(abcde, ǝpɔqɐ)

      Madam,  I'm Adam.    ·ɯɐpⱯ ɯ,I 'ɯɐpɐW
      ·ɯɐpⱯ ɯ,I 'ɯɐpɐW            ǝpɔqɐ

____________________________

i'd like to see  more   strange,  pretty  chars like these:

                   ꧁꧂    Wow!   that's your name????

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There are a couple of ways to flip text without a website.

One could enter HTML code to create "upside down" text, but it is labor intensive. You need to look up the necessary Unicode character numbers.
For example the HTML for the inverted characters for "Hello World!" are:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

which results in:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

Note that the characters are a mix of regular characters ("H", "o", "M",
"l", "p") and special characters (&#633 = "ɹ").

Alternatively, you can create an HTML-compatible document file with a
"flipped" character set. For example:

abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890-=
!@#$%^&*() +

Becomes:

+ ()*⅋^%$#@¡
=-068ㄥ9ϛㄣƐᄅƖ
Z⅄XMΛ∩┴SɹQԀONW˥ʞſIHפℲƎpƆq∀ zʎxʍʌnʇsɹbdouɯlʞɾᴉɥƃɟpǝɔqɐ

One can then copy and paste to create the flipped text. This is how one created flipped text before websites were available. Before Unicode,
one had to be more creative using ASCII-only characters. I created a
mystery puzzle for rec.puzzles years ago using ASCII-only characters.

-Carl G.

On 5/4/2024 10:46 AM, HenHanna wrote:

(inverted (upside-down) chars)
          -- Can i enter them in Gmail without going to a Web site?

¿ǝʇᴉs qǝM ɐ oʇ ƃuᴉoƃ ʇnoɥʇᴉʍ lᴉɐɯꓨ uᴉ ɯǝɥʇ ɹǝʇuǝ ᴉ uɐƆ --
                                        (sɹɐɥɔ (uʍop-ǝpᴉsdn) pǝʇɹǝʌuᴉ)

(up-dn)

__________________

 Is there a nice Web page or a Youtube Clip that
              explains these inverted (upside-down)  characters?
(abcde, ǝpɔqɐ)

       Madam,  I'm Adam.    ·ɯɐpⱯ ɯ,I 'ɯɐpɐW
       ·ɯɐpⱯ ɯ,I 'ɯɐpɐW            ǝpɔqɐ



____________________________

i'd like to see  more   strange,  pretty  chars like these:

                    ꧁꧂    Wow!   that's your name????

--
Carl G.


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The puzzle I posted in 2000 that was based on ASCII-only "flipped" text
is below.

The Case of the Smart Leopard

After the death of Artie Barnes, detectives Ohms and Wattson were
contacted by his daughter.

"I'm Agnes", she said, "Mr. Barnes only heir."

"What can we do for you?", asked Ohms.

She explained, "My father left me his stamp collection in his will. Most
of the stamps have only nominal value, but one stamp with a picture of a leopard on it, commonly called the "Lava Blue", is supposed to be
priceless. Few people knew that he had it in his possession. I looked
in his stamp collection and found all of the stamps except for that one.
In its place was this note, apparently written in code."

She handed Ohms and Wattson a small scrap of paper. On the paper was
written:

A Sure Rest

ase)J!e+say+dn'da+s
puo)asey+uo+adJe)
ay+Japunpa+e)o|s!
aJnseaJ++aJ)ashW

After studying the note for a while, Wattson exclaimed, "Ah-ha! I
notice that the title is an anagram for 'Arrest Sue'. Perhaps she stole
the stamp!".

"Are you sure? My father did like anagrams, but I can't think of any
'Sue' it may refer to.", said Agnes.

"It's an anagram, but I think you have things reversed.", Ohms stated,
"The note clearly tells us the likely location of the stamp!".

Where is the stamp?

Carl G.

Bonus points for finding other appropriate anagrams in this puzzle.



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Carl G. wrote:

There are a couple of ways to flip text without a website.

One could enter HTML code to create "upside down" text, but it is labor intensive. You need to look up the necessary Unicode character numbers.
For example the HTML for the inverted characters for "Hello World!" are:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

which results in:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

Note that the characters are a mix of regular characters ("H", "o", "M",

"l", "p") and special characters (&#633 = "ɹ").

Alternatively, you can create an HTML-compatible document file with a "flipped" character set. For example:

abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890-=
!@#$%^&*() +

Becomes:

+ ()*⅋^%$#@¡
=-068ㄥ9ϛㄣƐᄅƖ
Z⅄XMΛ∩┴SɹQԀONW˥ʞſIHפℲƎpƆq∀ zʎxʍʌnʇsɹbdouɯlʞɾᴉɥƃɟpǝɔqɐ

thank you for the puzzle and explanation....


here's Commonym puzzles.

(easy) 1. What is the common link? Beetle, Rabbit, Passat

2. What is the common link? Bubble, Cork, Question

3. What is the common link (or thread)? Play, Gray,
Bay

________________________________________________
a much harder problem is....

There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the
colourless skein of
life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose
every
inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda.
Her attack
and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of
Chopin's she
plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay."

When SH (Sherlock Holmes) says Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay, what piece is he referring to?

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Carl G. wrote:

There are a couple of ways to flip text without a website.

One could enter HTML code to create "upside down" text, but it is labor intensive. You need to look up the necessary Unicode character numbers.
For example the HTML for the inverted characters for "Hello World!" are:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

which results in:

¡plɹoM ollǝH

Note that the characters are a mix of regular characters ("H", "o", "M",
"l", "p") and special characters (&#633 = "ɹ").

-------------- Is that Russian?


(inverted (upside-down) chars) -- Are they robust ? --(i.e.) Can all major browsers display them reliably?


Are there some inverted chars for Kanji and Hiragana, Katakana?


Are there also (Left-Right) mirror-image characters???

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On 2024-05-04, HenHanna wrote:

(inverted (upside-down) chars)
-- Can i enter them in Gmail without going to a Web site?

Use the upside-down command in the *n*x filters package.


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Carl G. wrote:

The puzzle I posted in 2000 that was based on ASCII-only "flipped" text is below.

The Case of the Smart Leopard
After the death of Artie Barnes, detectives Ohms and Wattson were contacted by his daughter.

maybe better as Homes and Wotsan, (?)

A Sure Rest

ase)J!e+say+dn'da+s
puo)asey+uo+adJe)
ay+Japunpa+e)o|s!
aJnseaJ++aJ)ashW

i think i like it better when it looks less like
the CODE in Poe's Gold Bug, (with regular t's) as:

ase)J!etsaytdn'dats
puo)aseytuotadJe)
aytJapunpate)ols!
aJnseaJttaJ)ashW


---------------- Maybe ) is better replaced with r ? -------- (i'm not sure)


aseɔJ!etsaytdn'dats
puoɔaseytuotadJeɔ
aytJapunpateɔols!
aJnseaJttaJɔashW



asecJietsaytdn'dats puocaseytuotadJec aytJapunpatecolsi aJnseaJttaJcashW

sayt casey Japun patecols

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On 5/7/2024 11:52 AM, HenHanna wrote:

Carl G. wrote:

The puzzle I posted in 2000 that was based on ASCII-only "flipped"
text is below.

The Case of the Smart Leopard
After the death of Artie Barnes, detectives Ohms and Wattson were
contacted by his daughter.

maybe better as Homes and Wotsan, (?)

If I recall correctly, I picked "Ohms and Wattson" because I had used
those names in an earlier puzzle and liked the electrical puns (e.g.,
"Do not resist, we have you covered!"). I had also done an Internet
search to find out which names others had used to spoof "Sherlock Holmes
and Doctor Watson", and I did not find "Ohms and Wattson" being used at
that time (around 2000). If I can find my notes, I might be able to
create a list of the names I chose not to use.

ObPuzzle/Word Play:

Create other names that can be used to spoof "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (e.g., "Schlock and Wit-Shun", "Sure-Crock Groans and Whats-on")

--
Carl G.


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