Strikethrough Text Generator

In short Strikethrough Unicode text works differently from the bold and italic generators: instead of substituting different characters, it adds a combining long stroke overlay after each letter. The letters stay the letters they were, and a mark is drawn through them. That has one clear advantage — the underlying text is still the plain letters, so copying it and stripping the combining marks gives back exactly what you typed, and search sometimes still matches it. It also has a disadvantage: combining marks render inconsistently, and the stroke can sit at the wrong height, break across a line, or fail to appear at all depending on the font and platform. Doubling the character count is the other consequence, since every letter is followed by its combining mark, which matters against a character limit. The everyday use is showing a correction or a joke — a crossed-out word followed by the real one — in a place that offers no formatting. Where the platform does support it, its own syntax is better: a tilde on either side in WhatsApp and Slack, two in Discord and Markdown.