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Broken text

Unicode has marks that stack above and below letters, letters from other alphabets that look the same, and blocks in every shade of grey. With those you can break a text and it's still text: copy it and paste it anywhere.

  • Zalgo

    Marks piling up above and below every letter.

    g̻̹̠͎̮̰ͩ̀̽̏̅ͣl̰i͎̼ͦ̏̉̇̉ͦţ̨̡̮̗̗̻ͬ͛̇c̰͎̯̣̮̠̄ͦͪ̇̃h͉̻̪̪̩̊ͦ̀̂̔͋
  • Blocks

    Letters turning into █ ▓ ▒ ░.

    ▒░itch
  • Homoglyphs

    Greek and Cyrillic letters that look Latin (and aren't).

    ցӏιтcɦ
  • Mojibake

    UTF-8 text read as if it were Latin-1, like old emails.

    glitch
  • Strikethrough

    A line through every letter, with the odd underline.

    g̶̲l̶i̶̸t̶c̶h̶
  • Upside down

    Flipped over and right to left.

    ɥɔʇᴉlƃ
  • Full width

    The wide letters of Japanese keyboards, with the odd gap.

    glitch
  • All mixed up

    A bit of everything, letter by letter.

    gĺ̷̙͆̀itch