Hello, try the following in the interaction panel of DrRacket:
(display (integer->char #x2144)) Or, just put this character in an editor buffer. The character is displayed 3 lines below its proper position. AFAIK, this character is a normal ‘Letterlike Symbol’. It shouldn't have any misterious formatting properties, and it's a character of fundamental importance for writing ¡uʍop ǝpısdn 8^) (latest nightly build, on windows 8) Puzzled P. ======== #lang racket (provide upside-down) (define table (let () (define (putin t s1 s2) (for/fold ((t t)) ((c1 (in-string s1)) (c2 (in-string s2))) (hash-set t c1 c2))) (for/fold ((t (hash))) ((pair (in-list '(("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz?!’._()[]{}<>;" "ɐqɔpǝɟƃɥıɾʞןɯuodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz¿¡,˙‾)(][}{><؛") ("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "∀qƆpƎℲפHIſʞ˥WNOԀQɹS┴∩ΛMX⅄Z") )))) (putin t (first pair) (second pair))))) (define (upside-down string) (list->string (reverse (for/list ((c (in-string string))) (hash-ref table c c))))) ======== _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev