“Ich habe (k)einen Benis also bin ich…” zählt nicht

  • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    I understood your intended meaning perfectly. Clever use of that stuff!

    But I was curious how that works. Thanks for clearing it up a little. Though I’m still wondering, how that stuff gets encoded, and how it’s possible to work on here and why I can even copy it to a plain text editor and it still looks the same there.

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      9 days ago

      Unicode letters with diacritics are just serial groups of symbols that get rendered by the software displaying it in a way that places the diacritical symbols above or below the letters. Wikipedia has a short explanation that (funny enough) also mentions zalgo text.

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        9 days ago

        Interesting read. It also mentions how it’s challenging for software to render 'algo text well. Hence my astonishment, that both my Lemmy-app (Voyager) and a plain text editor on my phone seem to have no trouble at all doing so. (Apart from overlapping the next lines).

        And I’m also astonished how that piece of internet culture has largely gone by me, despite decades of heavy internet use… TIL, I guess.