# A Unicode keyboard?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-unicode-keyboard/51252>\
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**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-unicode-keyboard/51252 "2020-12-04T13:45:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-unicode-keyboard/51252/4 "2020-12-04T14:46:40Z")

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I routinely use about 100–150 Unicode symbols (in addition to ASCII), mostly Greek letters and math operators. I find it much simpler to remember the `\` sequence since I already use it for LaTeX, and just set up Emacs to complete/replace these. I don’t think I would be touch-typing if I had to remember where eg \varphi is — instead, I would spend 5 minutes finding it on the keyboard.

I even replaced my Android launcher with

[https://github.com/fAndreuzzi/TUI-ConsoleLauncher](https://github.com/fAndreuzzi/TUI-ConsoleLauncher)

so I can just type app names.

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