Eli5: why does ̸̢̛̞̱͓Z̵̪͙͊̎̌ä̷̳͕̋̚l̵͉̙̓͘ͅg̴̫̠̑̈͜o̴̻͛ text look the way it does?
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Some languages use accent marks. Think like ö, but loads of languages around the world with loads of accent marks. Instead of having every combination of every letter and every possible accent saved in a font, UTF (the modern standard for how computers store text) lets you add accents on top of existing letters.
Some accents go below text as well as above so they’re in there too.
Some languages have stacked accents, so instead of having all the possible stacked accents in a font UTF lets you just put one after the other and stacks them.
If you go a bit crazy with it and put loads of stacked accents on every letter of a word it becomes a cursed mess that spills out across multiple lines.
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