These look so chopped up. I don’t get where this would be useful.
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They’re combining marks. Unicode is designed to handle all human language plus a lot extra – which is a *lot* of potential symbols, so they built it to be modular. So a lot of characters are designed to combine.
Like, you know how there are six skin tones available for emojis depicting people? Unicode doesn’t actually have an character for black waving hand 👋🏿”, you use “Waving hand 👋” followed by “Black skin tone 🏿”.
Some languages need the ability combine characters together – like in Thai, vowels get stuck on top of consonants – and add pronunciation marks, and then what if you’re writing lyrics and you need to add musical notation, etc.
So they let you stack combining characters on each other however you want. What Zalgo text is doing is using a bunch of characters that attach to the top of the letter so they stack up, then going back down with characters that attach below the letter, then back up again so they overlap several times.
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