Scenario – supporting large Insurance company handling password reset for windows and mainframe systems. A user needed a mainframe password reset and the auto-generated password emailed to her was a random string of characters.
She called back unable to login because she could not figure out how to input an “upside-down exclamation mark”
After muting the phone and sharing the story with my team I returned to the call and suggested she use a lower-case “i”.
She was then able to login.
via: [Spiceworks Community]
Picture Source: [Noah Sussman]
I had a birthmark that I would proclaim as an “upside-down exclamation mark” on my forehead, before it disappeared in high school. I would often say it proudly to my friends for quite a long time.
After I told my girlfriend of my “upside-down exclamation mark” I used to have, she looked at me with this bemused look and said “So an i.” She promptly started laughing as I sheepishly replied, “Yes…”
I never felt so embarrassed…
For Spanish language speakers, it makes perfect sense. Because “¡” is not an upside down “i”. _____ i ! ¡ i
On the other hand, they know how to type it (supposedly)