# Stupid question on Unicode

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stupid-question-on-unicode/27674
**Category:** Offtopic
**Created:** [August 18, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stupid-question-on-unicode/27674 "2019-08-18T07:43:04Z")
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#### Post date: [August 18, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stupid-question-on-unicode/27674/7 "2019-08-18T19:30:26Z")

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In addition to the font issues, if your unicode is more than 4 digits long, you should use the `\U` escape sequence (note the upper case “U”)

[https://pkg.julialang.org/docs/julia/THl1k/1.1.1/manual/strings.html#man-characters-1](https://pkg.julialang.org/docs/julia/THl1k/1.1.1/manual/strings.html#man-characters-1)

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