# Plots.jl title greek letter error

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-title-greek-letter-error/32758>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-title-greek-letter-error/32758 "2019-12-28T14:50:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yuxi.liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/839c29/32.png) [@yuxi.liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuxi.liu)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-title-greek-letter-error/32758/1 "2019-12-28T14:50:54Z")

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```julia
using Plots
plot(1,1, title="ρ")

```

gives

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/d/cd87c40e9d05711f77e09c2417f6e5338c68ee1f.png)

It turns out to be a problem with unicode, and can be worked around with LaTeX input.

```julia
plot(1,1, title="\\rho")

```

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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:** [December 28, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-title-greek-letter-error/32758/2 "2019-12-28T16:24:58Z")

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See [Typing special characters in Plot legends and titles - #11 by stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/typing-special-characters-in-plot-legends-and-titles/24771/11)