RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
| Codepoint | U+202E |
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| Comments |
commonly abbreviated RLO |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| Sub-Block | Format characters |
| Category | Cf / Other, format |
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| Description | The Right-To-Left Override character can be used to force a right-to-left direction withing a text. This is often abused by hackers to disguise file extensions: when using it in the file name my-text.'U+202E'cod.exe, the file name is actually displayed as my-text.exe.doc - so it seems to be a .doc file while in reality it is an .exe file. There's even an xkcd comic for this character! |
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| How to type the symbol in Windows? | hold alt type + type 202E release alt |
| How to type the symbol in Linux? | hold ctrl+shift type U 202E release ctrl+shift |