Julia in VS Code not recognizing Mathematical Italics Unicode characters

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Hello, I am working with code from a co-author and in it are various Unicode characters in Mathematical Italics. Unfortunately in the VS Code editor I’m using, it does not seem to recognize when I type \mitx[TAB] or the Code Point (using this link: Unicode Input · The Julia Language).

The REPL recognizes the character when I type:

codepoint(𝑥)

in the terminal and returns the correct code point.

However when I type:

? 𝑥

in the REPL terminal, the following message comes up:

Binding 𝑥 does not exist.

I do not have problems using the TAB shortcut for any other characters such as

\alpha \beta \scrA \bfA

Thank you for your help and suggestions.

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Works fine for me:

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And in the REPL at the bottom:

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The “binding does not exist” message just means that you haven’t assigned anything to the identifier in your current session.

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Gosh, this was silly on my part. Yes,

\itx

also works for me. I was trying to follow the exact tab complection sequence from here (Unicode Input · The Julia Language), which said to write:

\mitx

Problem solved. Thank you!

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No worries - never seen the site you linked and no idea why there’s an extra m there, but I recommend just copy-pasting unicode characters into the REPL to quickly work out how to type them:

help?> 𝑥
"𝑥 " can be typed by \itx<tab>
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Thank you!!

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that looks like the manual for Julia version 0.6.2. Better to use a more recent version: Unicode Input · The Julia Language

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