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Ban or at least hide these zalgo characters
I guess these unicode characters are shown only if your OS supports them. Windows does.
Interesting problem:
I see them too on win10 + Waterfox Classic.
My solution in my Userstyle:
I contain these characters by using CSS overflow things....
By curiosity i have make a search how to remove them and find (just some ideas/infos) :
Some infos about these Zaglo:
1- Zaglo is a part of:
Combining character From WikipediaCombining character From Wikipedia
2 - Online Zalgo Text Generator (Generator tool + infos):
"The Origin Of Zalgo:
Zalgo is the creation of a Flash animator known as Dave Kelly.
The word “Zalgo” was often mentioned in Archies or Garfield comic strips from the newspaper that used to denote something scary or full of terror.
It is also used to address a being who is often called as “he who waits behind the wall”.
The main purpose behind bringing the word “Zalgo” was to represent the dark and demonic things with it."
2 - Revert Tools:
- Zalgo from unicode remover World's simplest unicode tool with explanation...
- Zalgo remover author as some funny things in this site.
2 - How does Zalgo text work?
Some thread about remove or filter them:
1 - What's up with these Unicode combining characters and how can we filter them? [Stackoverflow]
They spoke about regex or jasvascript solutions:
One of them:
strip-combining-marks, but seems not working or updated:
Is it possible to strip these characters?
2 - Replace all the unicode characters outside of your desired range(s).
3 - Do you know how to prevent Zalgo Text? (Python)
Weirdly enough, those characters appear as normal text on chrome on Android, not so on Windows.
Apparently it's not even zalgo text, but some arabic character, https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FC5E
So some scripts have crazy zalgo characters in the name.
Can we get rid of these characters? Or at least hide them in the preview (overflow hidden or w/e)?
Here's a script with a crazy name that has characters covering other scripts
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/423522
The name:
A picture of it: