# Do you use Julia's extensive Unicode support?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-you-use-julias-extensive-unicode-support/137702>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 19, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-you-use-julias-extensive-unicode-support/137702 "2026-06-19T18:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-you-use-julias-extensive-unicode-support/137702/22 "2026-06-23T16:38:04Z")

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> [@foobar\_lv2](#):
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> I view this as a terrible anti-feature, actively hate it and give my best to never use it. That works mostly OK.

Note that we already had long threads about the opinions of you and others on this matter; see e.g. [Syntax: Escape hatch for unicode haters](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syntax-escape-hatch-for-unicode-haters/108363) or [Unicode: a bad idea, in general](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicode-a-bad-idea-in-general/99897) … it’s probably not productive to re-hash it again.

TLDR: Some people like using Unicode identifiers, primarily to make the code closer to mathematical notations in domains where that is very standardized, and others do not. There are various ways to type them, from editor tab completion (`\foo<TAB>`) to OS shortcuts (e.g. option-x for `≈` on Macs) and language input modes (e.g. switching to Greek input mode) to custom keyboard layouts. For most packages, however, people tend to avoid _requiring_ non-ASCII characters to access an API, either by keeping the external APIs ASCII-only or by providing ASCII equivalents to Unicode APIs (e.g. the way you can use the non-infix `xor(a,b)` instead of the infix `a ⊻ b`). Across the Julia ecosystem, you’ll find varying degrees of Unicode usage in code, but it mostly seems concentrated in math-heavy applications.

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