Saturday, November 8, 2008
mmm been aboutt a week
so i've been trying to find a way to type letters backwards. and i dont mean like this "siht ekil naem tnod i dna". i've been trying to find a way to literally type backwards letters. like mirrored or inverted letters like this "Я". except i've been trying to find a way to do it with the entire alphabet, uppercase and lowercase. and i am aware that some letters are the same backwards as they are forwards like the capital "A" or "U" or "I" or "T" or "Y" or "W" etc. and a few lowercase letters like "x" and "o" and sometimes "l" depending on the font thats used. anyway i was able to find a really neat site that automatically types letters upside down when you type into the top box. then you just copy/paste it to whatever and you have upside down text for example "ǝןdɯɐxǝ uɐ sı sıɥʇ". what is grinding on my nerves is that if someone can create a site that does that, shouldnt someone be able to create a site that can mirror letters when you type??? its pissing me off because i really wanna make mirrored text for some pieces of writing that im doing and there is NOTHING that i can find. does anyone have anything to help me find what im looking for?
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I've been googling for stuff, but it does not seem to be possible, because a Western version of Windows is natively created to write from left to right. Doing RTL needs specific software and modification of Windows, and that's only RTL, inverting/mirroring the letters is a whole other issue.
However, there may be a font out there that consists of the normal western alphabet, but mirrored. The only thing you then need to do is type from right to left.
I will keep looking...thus far, I've had no luck in finding anything for you.
Rene's not far off - it should be fairly easy to get a font with the letters mirrored, and then just put the letters in reverse order. I recently wrote a script to do the reverse-order thing, so let me know if you want to use that and I'll dig up the link for you.
I've played with fonts a fair bit as a web designer, and the real trouble is that in most cases you're limited to using only fonts that the visitor already has. What's the context here, exactly? That is, where do you want this to be displayed? For instance, Storm currently can't accept or display anything in non-standard fonts.
If you just want to mirror a block of text, your best option is probably to take an image of the text and just mirror the image.
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