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Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by lowleveldata@programming.dev to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I was commenting on a Japanese sub to guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes "[ Removed by Reddit ]" after a few seconds. Was this always the case?

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[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to explain for the uninitiated? I assume the code at the front and back are some sort of indicators to reverse the text?

[–] Gurfaild@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

U+202E and U+202C are control characters that change the direction of the text (see also https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1137:_RTL)

In order to be able to type them, you can use HTML entities: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp

You can write any Unicode character like that, for example a becomes a.