Strikethrough "fancy text" isn't a separate letter set at all — it works by inserting a combining long stroke overlay (U+0336) after every regular letter, which your font draws as a line through it.
01 Step by step, per platform
A real, followable procedure for every platform — not a thin restatement of the shortcut.
How it works
- Type h, then insert U+0336, then e, then U+0336, and so on — the combining mark stacks visually onto the character right before it.
- This is a genuinely different mechanism from bold/italic/script: no separate strikethrough alphabet exists in Unicode, just a mark that overlays whatever comes before it.
02 FAQ
Why does strikethrough text sometimes look broken or misaligned?
Combining marks depend heavily on font and rendering engine support — unlike a dedicated look-alike letter, the stroke has to be positioned relative to each base character by the renderer, and not every font does this cleanly.
Will "fancy text" work everywhere I paste it?
Mostly, since it's just Unicode text — but it isn't accessible: screen readers often can't pronounce these look-alike letters properly, and browser find-in-page / site search won't match them against the real word, since each is a different code point from the plain letter it resembles.