Strike through plain text with unicode characters?

Question

Is it possible to strike through unwanted revised words in your code comments? Since developers still code in the dark ages a simpler time of

Answer 1

in an AutoHotkey script:

<^>!ü::Send {U+0336}

pressing

AltGr+ü , y , AltGr+ü , e , AltGr+ü , s

̶y̶e̶s, I can strikethrough

Answer 2

There's U+0336, COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY. Googling Unicode strikethough turns up tools to apply it to your text, such as this one. Whether it looks any good will depend on your font; it looks pretty terrible on my environment.

Answer 3

You can also use this function in Python 3+ to generate it on the fly:

def striken(text):
    return ''.join(t+chr(822) for t in text)

Example output

>>> def striken(text):
...   return ''.join(t+chr(822) for t in text)
... 
>>> striken("hello")
'h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶'
>>> striken("hello darkness my old friend")
'h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶ ̶d̶a̶r̶k̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶'