The most strange and extraordinary character in computer.

3 points by qatrix 12 years ago | 5 comments

↑Here is the strange and extraordinary character I found on PC. This character will cause many strange phenomenon on computer, especially on Windows. Really wired.

1. Copy that and pasta into Google search bar, you will see the text alignment of search bar become right to left.

2. Put it into notepad or any input area on browser. Input blank space before this character, and press backspace, or add some common characters before or after it. Many strange things happen, and you cannot remove it sometime.

Enjoy this ghost-like character!

unimpressive 12 years ago |

Using Linux here, seems totally ordinary to me.

EDIT: Though I really don't understand why a lot of these characters even exist. I mean, what is that? The sun?

EDIT2: When I pasted into DuckDuckGo it actually told me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb

ahazred8ta 12 years ago | |

Yes, it's an Arabic-script symbol used as a chapter marker. U+06DE (it's a star made of two interlocking squares) ¶ ‡ ☛ ❦ ☚ ❖

qatrix 12 years ago | |

Try Windows.

unimpressive 12 years ago | | |

I was just pointing out that a lot of this behavior probably is caused by quirks in windows character handling as opposed to any intrinsic strangeness of the character itself.

FWIW, copy pasting it into google does invert the justification of the search bar text.