[RESOLVED] QUOTE backwards!?!

[Valleysboy1978]

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...7&postcount=31
Regarding this post in a ChitChat thread, if you quote him you get the end QUOTE tag in reverse

[mendhak]

I think this must be, somehow, related to RTL and Hebrew/Arabic language input mechanisms. But that's just an educated guess.

[mendhak]

Add the HTML entity 8238 to the beginning of your sentence.

*And you'll end up with this.

[NotLKH]

Did you use my method to determine the magic?

re: http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...8&postcount=40

[mendhak]

No, you used my method to determine the magic.

[wossname]

<8238>Pron?

[NotLKH]

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<8238>Pron?

Hmmm.
Doesn't work when you place it in front of a quoted post.
However, when you go back to edit it, the quote IS backwards.

[wossname]

<8238>No, you used my method to determine the magic.

????

[wossname]

£500 to the first person that starts making sense.

[JPnyc]

It's just an HTML entity, like typing & gt; and seeing > when it's parsed.

[wossname]

*sdrawkcaB

[Valleysboy1978]

could someone post the actual HTML string needed to accomplish this? I will then mark this thread as resolved

[JPnyc]

No, because the forum parses it and you wouldn't see it. Also, it's not useful for anything.

[Valleysboy1978]

Fair enough

[Valleysboy1978]

Marked resolved

[kregg]

So nobody had bothered to PM me or anything (except Marty) about this?

Basically, all I did was stick a special character inside the forum window to make it appear as a blank post.
This character can reverse text, hence it reversed the quotes.

If you want a link to a text file that has this character, get it here.

BTW, you can use that character anywhere. I found it ages ago since my friend stuck the character in his Personal message bit in the latest MSN/Windows Live messenger and the status messages came up reverse.

Does it make sense now? It's not a flaw in the VBForums or anything.

So now you know my magic trick.

[Valleysboy1978]

Thanks

[Valleysboy1978]

For those who want future reference (as I couldn't get it from your link sorry kregg) the string you want is:

& # 8 2 3 8 ;

(without the spaces obviously)

[kregg]

(as I couldn't get it from your link sorry kregg)

Right click on the link, and press "Save As". Sorry I didn't mention this before.

CORRECTION: UPDATED LINK. GET IT HERE
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