# Cyrillic symbols in comments

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cyrillic-symbols-in-comments/49693>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** comment\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cyrillic-symbols-in-comments/49693 "2020-11-06T17:42:26Z")\
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> [@gvbelov](#):
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> println(“Hello !”) # Булгъар

It appares that the quotation marks you use are the problem, not the comments:

```julia
julia> println(“Hello !”) # Булгъар
ERROR: syntax: invalid character "“" near column 9
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at none:1

julia> println("Hello !") # Булгъар
Hello !

```

Use ASCII quotation marks.

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