Reverse text without breaking the emoji

Paste it into the box above and read the second box — that is the whole procedure, with nothing to install and no account. Backwards here means the reading order is reversed, so "Meet me at eight" becomes "thgie ta em teeM". If you wanted the words shuffled to the end instead of the letters, switch the mode to reversed word order and the same sentence comes back as "eight at me Meet".

Yes — every emoji comes through in one piece here, which is not true of most backwards text tools. A family emoji is not one character underneath: it is four separate people welded together by three invisible marks, seven pieces in total. Reverse those pieces individually and you get a jumble of separate people in the wrong order, sometimes with a stray joiner left dangling. This page reverses by visible character, so the whole family moves together, and it flags in a note underneath exactly which characters in your text were at risk.

No, and the difference matters if you were hoping for the Leonardo da Vinci effect. Reversing changes the order the characters are in; mirroring flips the shape of each letter so that a d looks like a b. Nothing on this page touches the shapes, because letter shapes belong to the font, not to the text — genuine mirror writing needs a CSS transform or a mirrored image. What you get here is text that a person can read by starting at the right-hand end, and that pastes into anything as ordinary letters.

By default they simply move with everything else, which is why a fully reversed sentence starts with a full stop and ends with a capital. When you reverse the word order there is a tick box that moves the capital to whichever word now comes first, so the line still opens the way a sentence should. Spelling each word backwards has its own pair of options: one leaves punctuation standing where it is, so Hello, becomes olleH, rather than ,olleH, and the other puts the capital back at the front of a word that started with one.

Yes for the character and word-order modes — reversing a reversal is the original text, and the button under the output box exists to let you check. Two caveats. Runs of several spaces between words collapse to one when word order is reversed, because the words are re-laid with a single space between them. And the two tidying options are not reversible by nature: once a capital has been moved to a different word, a second pass has no way of knowing where it came from.

Because an accented letter is often stored as two pieces — the plain letter followed by a floating accent that attaches to whatever comes before it. Text lifted from a PDF, or typed with the accent keys on some keyboards, arrives in that form constantly. Reverse the pieces without noticing and the accent lands on the wrong letter, so café turns into ə́fac rather than éfac. This page groups each letter with its accents before reversing anything, so the mark stays on the letter it belongs to whichever way the text was stored.

In the whole-block setting, yes — reversing every character in a passage necessarily puts the last line at the top, since the final line break is now the first. Switch the reach to each line on its own and the lines stay put while their contents mirror in place. If flipping line order is the only thing you want, with the words inside each line left completely alone, that is a different job and the reverse list tool does it properly, including what to do with numbers at the start of each line.