Answers
How do I convert fancy text back to normal?
Paste it through a plain-text step.
Short answer
Deleting formatting will not work, because the styling lives in the characters themselves. Retype the text, or run it through a converter that maps the styled code points back to ASCII.
The short answer
Because the styling is in the characters, deleting formatting will not help. Retype the text, or paste it into a converter that maps the styled code points back to their ASCII equivalents.
Why this comes up
People reach for the usual tools first — select the text, clear formatting, paste as plain text — and none of them work. That is genuinely surprising, because every other kind of text formatting yields to those commands. This one does not, because there is no formatting to remove.
What actually works
Retyping is the most reliable route and often fastest for short text. For longer passages, paste into a converter that maps the styled code points back to their ASCII equivalents. Pasting through a plain-text editor will not help on its own: it happily preserves these characters, because as far as it is concerned they are just letters.