How does Zalgo text work?

Question

I\'ve seen weirdly formatted text called Zalgo like below written on various forums. It\'s kind of annoying to look at, but it really bothers me because it undermines my not

Answer 1

Zalgo text works because of combining characters. These are special characters that allow to modify character that comes before.

OR

y + ̆ = y̆ which actually is

y + ̆ = y̆

Since you can stack them one atop the other you can produce the following:

y̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆

which actually is:

y̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆

The same goes for putting stuff underneath:

y̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆

that in fact is:

y̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̰̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆̆

In Unicode, the main block of combining diacritics for European languages and the International Phonetic Alphabet is U+0300–U+036F.

More about it here

To produce a list of combining diacritical marks you can use the following script (since links keep on dying)

for(var i=768; i<879; i++){console.log(new DOMParser().parseFromString("&#"+i+";", "text/html").documentElement.textContent +"  "+"&#"+i+";");}

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