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Stacking combining diacritics[1] is also fun, to make extremely tall text.

Also fun is enumerating all the characters in the Private Character section[2] to see what UI symbols are able to be inserted into unintended places.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf

[2] http://www.unicode.org/faq/private_use.html https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf

Stacking combining diacritics is also fun, to make extremely tall text.

A bit OT, but here is a classic example of that (the much upvoted stack overflow post on parsing html with regex):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

I always wondered how people get these funny Twitter names, thx!

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