This article used to reference an article that discussed flash text metrics, and have a great little diagram for said topic. That blog has since gone away, but the same diagram above can be found at help.adobe.com. It is a big help when dealing with customized text layout situations in flash where you have to do manual baseline aligment and such.
uɐʎɹ ррoʇ uɐʎɹ
Hello. Is is me you're looking for?
僕は猿ーロボット。
robotic life signs.
makes noise, hears sounds, intafon.
affe auf deux roues.