What are these strange characters?

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I couldn't put them in the title because they actually seem to have many bytes:

I took some screenshots:

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score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

This question is a duplicate of the question @Bob linked. To expand on the accepted answer to that question, Unicode supports stacking diacritics, so what you're actually seeing are a whole bunch of characters, but part of their definition is that they get stacked on top of the previous character.

Consider the Spanish character, Ñ. It is really an N with a ~ displayed above. While many combo characters are pre-made and available in Unicode (and even ANSI), Unicode supports making the many variations that non-Latin alphabets require.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '14 at 15:42

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According to a Google search they are Thai. See here

answered Feb 14 '14 at 15:42

Matthew Williams

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