If I tab complete n\tilde in the REPL I visualize something as n and then a tilde on its right side, instead of ñ. If I then copy it in this forum it gets correctly displayed instead… Do you know if this issue as already been reported? How to circumvent it?

I’m no expert on Unicode, but I bet the problem you’re experiencing is the Unicode display capability of the gnome terminal, and not anything to do with Julia. The LaTeX-like TAB sequence at the Julia REPL generates a sequence of two Unicode code points, one for the n and one for the tilde. KDE Kon…

Display of unicode accents in REPL

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ScottPJones June 25, 2018, 4:31pm 10

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Display of unicode accents in REPL

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