# Latex character display issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628 "2019-06-24T21:18:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pmeiners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmeiners](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pmeiners)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628/1 "2019-06-24T21:18:54Z")

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Hey, I’m having issues with some Latex characters in the Julia Command line.  
The tab completion of α, β, π etc. works fine, but \euler (ℯ) and \sinewave (∿) for example produce an empty square. Julia does understand them correctly, so it’s just a rendering error?  
Did I misunderstand something fundamental here?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628/2 "2019-06-24T21:21:36Z")

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That’s likely just a limitation of your terminal and/or font — what terminal program are you using and on what OS?

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**Author:** ![pmeiners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmeiners](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pmeiners)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628/3 "2019-06-24T21:24:24Z")

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I’m on Windows 10. Not actually sure which terminal… I guess just cmd

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latex-character-display-issue/25628/4 "2019-06-25T14:19:43Z")

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Ah yup, there’s your problem. The builtin cmd leaves a bit to be desired. You can use other terminal apps to run Julia in — I don’t use Windows regularly so I’m not sure what’s the community favorite these days but you could check out the new [“Windows Terminal”](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-microsoft-store-preview-release/) in the Windows store or [mintty](http://mintty.github.io/) or [cmder](https://cmder.net/)