# Source files with non-ascii names: how?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/source-files-with-non-ascii-names-how/6827
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/source-files-with-non-ascii-names-how/6827 "2017-11-01T14:16:44Z")
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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: [November 1, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/source-files-with-non-ascii-names-how/6827/4 "2017-11-01T19:09:24Z")

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In this day and age, it is perfectly reasonable to tell people use an editor that supports Unicode and the UTF-8 encoding.

(Julia doesn’t even run on ancient systems where a lack of Unicode support might be hard to circumvent. And the only still-extant text editors I can find that don’t support unicode are `ed` and `pico`, and no sane programmer would use either of these…are there any other examples?)

_Correction:_ apparently there may be one popular programming text editor that still doesn’t properly support Unicode, and that is [the Matlab editor](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/280988-how-do-i-get-my-matlab-editor-to-read-utf-8-characters-utf-8-characters-in-blank-squares-in-editors). But if you are using the Matlab editor to write Julia code then you may need to re-think your life choices.

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