Strike through plain text with unicode characters?

Question

Is it possible to strike through unwanted revised words in your code comments? Since developers still code in the dark ages a simpler time of

Answer 1

There's U+0336, COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY. Googling Unicode strikethough turns up tools to apply it to your text, such as this one. Whether it looks any good will depend on your font; it looks pretty terrible on my environment.