# Hover over Latex/ Unicode Character to see the Latex Sourcecode
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749
**Category:** Juno
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749 "2019-12-02T13:06:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Impressium](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Impressium)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/1 "2019-12-02T13:06:26Z")
Hey π
I really like the unicode support in Julia. But sometime itβs hard to differentiate different latex character. Wouldnβt it be nice if there were a way to look them up and maybe get the latex source code (\alpha for Ξ±)
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### Author:  [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/2 "2019-12-02T13:27:13Z")
```nohighlight
help?> Ξ±
"Ξ±" can be typed by \alpha
```
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### Author:  [@Impressium](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Impressium)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/3 "2019-12-02T13:50:02Z")
Oh thanks. Thatβs great!
```julia
help?> π
search:
Couldn't find π
Perhaps you meant β, π, !, %, &, *, +, -, /, :, <, >, \, ^, |, ~, Γ·, Ο, β―, β, β, β, β, β, β, β, β©, βͺ, β, β, β , β‘, β’, β€, β₯, β, β, β, β, β, β, β», !=, //, <:, <<, <=, ==, =>, >:, >=, >>, GC, cd, cp, fd, im, in, mv, pi, rm, |> or IO
No documentation found.
Binding π does not exist.
julia>
```
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### Author:  [@jmert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmert)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/4 "2019-12-02T16:59:19Z")
You can also get more info by just quoting a single character in single quotes:
```julia
julia> 'π'
'π': Unicode U+01f44d (category So: Symbol, other)
julia> '\U01f44d'
'π': Unicode U+01f44d (category So: Symbol, other)
```
which will work for characters that donβt have a LaTeX shortcut built in to the REPL.
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### Author:  [@Syx\_Pek](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Syx_Pek)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/5 "2019-12-02T18:26:50Z")
But `\:+1:` gives π
I donβt know any easy way of finding out except [Unicode Input Β· The Julia Language](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/)
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unicode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/6 "2019-12-02T19:47:27Z")
> [@Syx\_Pek](#):
>
> But `\:+1:` gives π
This seems to be a bug in the help β¦ typing `?π` should show this (or any other) tab-completion shortcut. The required patch seems to be trivial if anyone wants to put together a PR:
>
>
> As reported \[on discourse\](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hover-over-latex-unβ¦icode-character-to-see-the-latex-sourcecode/31749/3?u=stevengj), the REPL help doesn't show tab completion info for emoji even when it exists, unlike for other Unicode completions:
> \`\`\`jl
> help?\> Ξ±
> "Ξ±" can be typed by \\alpha\
> search:
>
> Couldn't find Ξ±
> Perhaps you meant !, %, &, \*, +, -, /, :, \<, \>, \\, ^, |, ~, Γ·, Ο, β―, β, β or β
> No documentation found.
>
> Binding Ξ± does not exist.
>
> help?\> π
> search:
>
> Couldn't find π
> Perhaps you meant !, %, &, \*, +, -, /, :, \<, \>, \\, ^, |, ~, Γ·, Ο, β―, β, β or β
> No documentation found.
>
> Binding π does not exist.
> \`\`\`
> even though \`π\` is produced by tab completion of \`\\:+1:\`