Re: IDN spoofing

"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:32:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel,gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Simon Montagu wrote:

> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
>> I've thought about getting ɯoɔ.com for similar reasons...
>>
>> And of course, there's always plenty of room to play around with such 
>> things on the subdomain level, like having əլɓooɓ.google.com be an 
>> upside-down version of the page.
>
>
> I expect you've come across elgooG: http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi
>
> AFAICT they do that the hard way by passing the content through a 
> script which reverses all the texts. It could be done much more easily 
> with the CSS unicode-bidi property ;-)

I do something similar to make the KLI's online Klingon journal 
available in transliteration and also in PUA Klingon characters.  I run 
it through a script to translate at need.  And I have a script to 
generate the upside-down versions of lowercase Latin (and a few 
punctuation marks) if needed...

~mark