Characters can have different accents or modifications on them. For example, the letter "e" can be "é" or "è" or "ë", etc. The interesting thing being done here

Characters can have different accents or modifications on them. For example, the letter "e" can be "é" or "è" or "ë", etc. The interesting thing being done here is layering multiple diacritical marks on top of the slash character and then decoding those marks back into plain text.