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Re:The most strange and extraordinary character in computer. by unimpressive on Friday August 30, 2013 @10:22AM (#6301893)
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.

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Re:The most strange and extraordinary character in computer. by yossilac on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:39PM (#6303082)
On a mac, so can't verify - but if it's an Arabic character, seems plausible that Windows just shifts to right-to-left mode, which can sometimes cause some quirks when trying to delete the first/last character, etc.
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