Greg Hewgill ([info]ghewgill) wrote,
@ 2008-07-23 21:52:00
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umop-apisdn
I finally got around to putting something interactive on umop-apisdn.org. It takes whatever text you enter and tries to turn it upside down. It works best with lower case text.

I used the Unicode IPA character set which contains nearly all the upside-down characters I needed. You may find that your browser may or may not render any or all of the IPA characters, so I've provided an ASCII rendering option for backwards compatibility.

¡unɟ əʌɐH

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[info]pne
2008-07-23 09:59 am UTC (link)
So, it's basically like http://www.revfad.com/flip.html ?

You may want to flip !? as well, and swap [](){}, and replace full stop by mid-dot.

Edited at 2008-07-23 10:03 am UTC

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[info]ghewgill
2008-07-23 10:44 am UTC (link)
Ha, of course I wasn't the first one to do this. I never realised it was your idea, though!

I added some more characters as you suggested, thanks.

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[info]pne
2008-07-23 11:24 am UTC (link)
It wasn't my original idea, though I don't remember where I got it from. (My guess would be [info]timwi.)

Also, I should perhaps note that I didn't suggest the idea to anyone else (and revfad.com is not mine); I just woke up one morning to lots of comment notifications from people finding revfad.com/flip (and with it, the link to my journal entry) through Boingboing.

I've no idea how that person found my journal entry; they certainly never mentioned to me that they were making an "app" based on it.

Edited at 2008-07-23 11:26 am UTC

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[info]pne
2008-07-23 10:06 am UTC (link)
What I do like better about your version if that you use LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH HOOK for upside-down 'g', rather than LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH TOPBAR.

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[info]banana
2008-07-26 11:39 pm UTC (link)
The ASCII rendering for W is W when it surely should be M.

http://umop-apisdn.org/umop.py?text=Who%27s+on+first%3F&charset=ascii

It looked fine until I actually flipped my monitor. Bizarrely, I discovered that I knew the short cut key to rotate my screen!

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[info]ghewgill
2008-07-27 12:09 am UTC (link)
I fixed that and a couple of other halfhearted renderings of uppercase characters.

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