Hide e-mail address from spambots using UNICODE-BIDI

Spambots, spambots, spambots! Hope I can fry them ha! How to avoid them? use UNICODE-BIDI. But this is one of the many other methods around but I wanna talk about it in this post.

Lets use janedoe@example.com as the example. In order for an e-mail to avoid being harvested, dissect it by getting the first part which is the username, the @ symbol and transform it to [at], and lastly the domain and transform the dot/s to [dot]. As for Jane Doe’s email, it will be formatted as janedoe [at] example [dot] com. Not pretty at all.

In UNICODE-BIDI, text flow changes depending on how it will be used.

The Syntax
unicode-bidi: normal | embed | bid-override
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