Strikethrough Text
Struck-through text here is made with a single repeated Unicode character, U+0336, laid over each letter in turn. It is not formatting, which changes what it can and cannot survive.
These are characters, not formatting, which is why they survive a paste into a bio. It is also why a screen reader will not read them as ordinary letters, and why some sites refuse them in a name field.
One character, repeated
Every other style here swaps your letters. This one keeps them and inserts COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY, U+0336, after each. It is a non-spacing mark: no width, drawn on top of whatever came before it. The spaces are marked too, which is why the line reads as one stroke rather than a row of dashes.
Your text becomes exactly twice as long
Every visible character now costs two codepoints, so a 150-character limit holds roughly 75 struck characters. If a pasted bio arrives cut in half, that is why.
Where it breaks
- Alignment. Not every font places it well: it can sit high, detach from tall letters, or overhang the next one.
- Truncation. A cut between a letter and its stroke orphans the mark onto whatever follows, often an ellipsis.
- Input fields. Combining marks are routinely stripped or reordered on the way into storage; which fields do that is not predictable from outside, so test yours.
- Editing. Backspace usually deletes the mark first and the letter second.
What a screen reader does with it
There is a mark between every pair of letters and readers commonly announce it, so a five-letter word arrives as letters interleaved with descriptions of a stroke. Struck text is decoration only: never a heading, a name, or anything read aloud.
Two things it is not for
It is not a way past a moderation filter; the base letters are unchanged and read normally. Stacking marks until glyphs spill over neighbouring lines is a rendering fault, not a style, so this tool applies exactly one overlay. Where real strikethrough exists, in markdown or a rich editor, use that. The same mechanism with a different mark gives underlined text; the fancy text generator covers styles that substitute characters instead.