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by iqanq 1589 days ago
It's accidental, because other characters are also displayed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u20aa
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sgjohnson 1589 days ago
Yes, but this is not a printable character.

None of these will be shown, but ddg will recognise them as control characters though. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Cc

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Retr0id 1589 days ago
It's intentional, because there is no RTL override in the HTML source, the string is merely reversed.
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progval 1589 days ago
> no RTL override in the HTML source, the string is merely reversed

What? After opening the source, ctrl-f "representation" selects the reversed word. The source view just happens to interpret the RTL override.

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dzaima 1589 days ago
but there is, see:

  document.querySelector(".zci__body").textContent.charCodeAt(0)
  document.querySelector(".zci__body").textContent.substring(1)
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