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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by maf8987678 on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:13AM (#35652136)
This actually works fine with latin letters. Think of for example advertising or graffiti where this trick is used sometimes to gain attention.
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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by OJFord on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:27AM (#35652237)
Not all of them, depending on font (and case) - bdpq, sz.
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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by thaumasiotes on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:02PM (#35661861)
It works fine with all of them. It's true that some letters are mirrored forms of other letters, but that doesn't leave any ambiguity - the form of the letter is oriented to the direction of reading, so "b" is a B when you're reading left-to-right and it's a D when you're reading right-to-left.
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