# Steven Johnson's #19847 (more verbose multi-line display for Char)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/steven-johnsons-19847-more-verbose-multi-line-display-for-char/1268>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/steven-johnsons-19847-more-verbose-multi-line-display-for-char/1268 "2017-01-03T22:20:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/steven-johnsons-19847-more-verbose-multi-line-display-for-char/1268/1 "2017-01-03T22:20:15Z")

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This is excellent!

What I think would be very useful to have added to this PR is to display the possible `\<name><tab>` (and there may be more than one) methods for inputting the character.  
It might also be very useful to add whether or not the character is a valid start indentifier character or identifier character for Julia, and whether it is possible to use as an unary or binary infix operator.

Another place I think it would be great if this information were to be displayed is in the help system (in a separate PR, I guess, after #19847).  
For example, if you type `?xor` or `?⊻` (in v0.6), the help shows that you can enter it either with \xor or \veebar, but that was added manually just for that function. If you type `?in`, it shows 4 different Unicode character operators (∈, ∋, ∉, ∌), but no information on how to enter them. Even if the help system finds no bindings for a particular Unicode character, it could display the information from #19847, plus any \<name\> forms, as well as the rest of the information I suggested above, about how it can be used in Julia for identifiers and/or operators.

EDIT: After discussion in the Gitter chat with @TotalVerb, I agree with him now that the extra information is Julia specific, and so should be displayed just in the help system, not in `show`.

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**Author:** ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/steven-johnsons-19847-more-verbose-multi-line-display-for-char/1268/2 "2017-01-04T02:34:52Z")

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Another thought of something that still might be useful information, not Julia specific (and wouldn’t require a lot of room like putting the Unicode name) might be to also about put the 1-4 bytes of of UTF-8 encoding, for example:  
`🖖` Unicode: U+1F596, UTF-8: F0 9F 96 96

What do people think about adding that to #19847?