No superscript q in REPL?

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I noticed that every lowercase letter in the English alphabet can be used as a super script, except q. E.g. typing

julia> \^abcdefghijklmnop

and then pressing tab gives

julia> ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖ

I can do the same with the letters r-z:

julia> \^rstuvwxyz
julia> ʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻ

But I can’t convert \^q via tab completion. The character appears fine when I copy and paste it from another source (Unicode subscripts and superscripts - Wikipedia). Is there a reason why superscripted q is not supported? It seems like a weird exclusion to me, when every other lowercase English letter is supported.

(I am using Julia Version 1.11.4)

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That character famously does not exist in Unicode.

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Wow, I had no idea. I can’t believe that we don’t have superscript q in unicode when we have a coral emoji.

Thanks!

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What about

julia> '𐞥'
'𐞥': Unicode U+107A5 (category Lm: Letter, modifier)

?

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Wow, apparently U+107A5 and U+a7f4 were finally added in Unicode 14? I don’t seem to have any fonts that support them, though.

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If you’re hunting glyphs in the remote corners of the Unicode jungle, probably the best fonts to have installed are:

I think all are frequently updated, and will accept requests via issues and PRs. :wink:

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Current status:

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