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Vaporwave aesthetic text

Strip accents, then widen every character into fullwidth.

The vaporwave look is not extra spaces — it is a different set of characters. Unicode has fullwidth forms of the Latin letters, digits and punctuation, designed to sit on the same grid as Chinese and Japanese text, and using them is what gives the phrase its stretched appearance in a bio or on cover art.

Accented letters have no fullwidth form, so the first step folds them to their base letters and the second widens what remains. Both run locally in your browser, and the result is ordinary text you can paste anywhere that accepts Unicode.

Questions

Why does it remove accents?
The fullwidth block covers ASCII only. Without folding first, á or ř would stay narrow and the line would come out visibly uneven.
Is this just adding spaces between letters?
No. Each character is replaced by its fullwidth counterpart, so the width survives copy-paste instead of collapsing the way padded spaces often do.
Will it show up everywhere?
Anywhere the font has the fullwidth block, which is most modern systems. Somewhere it does not, the characters fall back to boxes — worth a test paste before posting.

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