IDG Contributor Network: Text for Linux users who just happen to be standing on their heads

Here’s one more really odd thing that you might consider doing when you’re finished setting up your 100+ new servers and troubleshooting problems that have stumped all the techies in the nearby vicinity – displaying text messages upside down. And if sheer entertainment is not enough of a reason, consider that the exercise might motivate you to think more deeply about the mysterious nature of character encoding systems. Yes, we’re going to turn phrases upside down -- not by flipping our monitors -- but by exchanging the usual characters that we see with their closest upside down equivalents – and then by presenting them on the screen in the reverse order.

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