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by blunte 1585 days ago
Well done. I don't understand this TFA, nor do I understand (fully) the xkcd cell. But I get the connection. Thanks :)
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U+202E is a Unicode codepoint, a control character that signals that letters (or other characters) should be printed right-to-left, as in Arabic or Hebrew.

What the DDG link illustrates is that when someone searches for information about that codepoint, DDG's autogenerated answer section accidentally _uses_ that control character (reversing the answer text) instead of just printing the codepoint.