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In general, different languages have very different letters. And even in the same language, many letters have different “marks” added to the letter itself, to adjust how it’s pronounced. These are called “diacritical marks”.

You’ve probably heard of the umlaut, which looks like two döts över a vöwel. But making an individual character for each possibility didn’t make sense, so instead, a method to reproduce this and future characters with diacritical marks on computers was invented called unicode. It can add little “hats”, or marks, to any character.

Any alphabetic character can wear a hat, such as an umlaut. It would normally have one or maybe two of these hats at most. And this character stays about the same height and can walk through a door sized for that character without a problem, and all websites know what size this door must be.

But what you’re seeing is a stack of hats, a *gigantic* stack of hats, which isn’t seen in any language, but is happily reproduced using unicode. And websites know the normal size of the door of a character wearing one hat, but when 50 of these hats are worn, it doesn’t properly fit through the door and the website doesn’t render it properly. (Or it does, but doesn’t anticipate this unusual gigantic stack of hats of hats wearing other hats.)

In your case, there isn’t even a character, but a gigantic stack of hats trying to fit through a door sized for something wearing just one hat.

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