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Fun story: I discovered these in the early 2000s and simultaneously discovered that Slashdot didn't filter these out. I spent an evening randomly reversing large sections of comment pages until they finally blocked it.

I'm very, very sorry CmdrTaco.

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Most web sites' comment sections will allow these. I think even Facebook allows tomfoolery like this. f̷̧̨̡̜͚̬̰͕̩̻̳̜̮̫̰̓̏̑̐̇̍͘͝è̶̙̥͚̰͈͚̹̜̼͙͚͌à̴̛̙̣̖̮̰̥̩͚̣̺͋̂̓̓̍͛͜ͅr̶̛͎̬̭̯͙͉̬̞̤̲̞̼͉̣̃̒͗̄̎̋͆̓̊͐͝ͅ ̷̦̬̳̹̦̳̭͓͖͔̺̮̩̓̆̍̊͆͊͜ẗ̵̩͙̼́̂̿́̂̈́̈́̑ḩ̸̨̝͇̖̤̱̠̼̣͈̩͈̰̃̂͂͋̏̇͗͛̓̈́̍̑͑̕̚͜ë̶̥̜̘͙̦̋ ̸̛̟̀̄̌͗́̄ͅų̷̪͙̰̜̟̰̦͇̞̥̜͓͇͊̆͗̆̀͗̀̈́̌̉͆̏͆͜ṫ̸̨̜͈̲̺͖͓̄̍̄̓̏̓̓̎͜ͅf̴̨̼̜̯͇̜̯̹͚͛8̴̧̤͖̠̳̜̤̻̟̏̀̽̃m̷̯̤̳͔̘̣͙̗̰͙͔̦̰̝͑͐͌̓̎̀̇̓̆͂̎̐̽̚͠ą̶̢̻͂̒͛̑̅̈͛͑̈́̓̚͠͝n̴̦̺͖̆̑͗̾̈̀̉̿̑̐̈́͝ͅͅ

Well yes, Facebook has users in Vietnam. Stacked diacritics are a features, not a bug.

I've seen some sites / services (Discord?) filter these out, at least to the point where they don't escape a message's vertical space. I'm sure they're truncated because those messages are pretty big in terms of amount of bytes.

And while they have valid use cases, I can't see it in e.g. comment sections or chat messages. Happy to have someone link to e.g. a Vietnamese comment section showing practical use though.

Vietnamese Wikipedia has plenty of Talk pages with discussion threads.

I’m sure you created a shitty day for one of us :( I’d like to say this was unusual, but it was pretty common.

Oof. :(

My bad, definitely sorry. A case of your favourite bubbly pop on me.

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