Unicode characters in Discourse threads

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A few solutions that I tend to use:

  1. write (La)TeX (as in $\alpha$)
  2. fire up a Julia REPL and auto-complete the unicode character from its TeX representation (\alpha<TAB>) and copy-paste it
  3. get a nearby emacs window and use M-x insert-char to insert the unicode character and copy-paste it
  4. there are tons of web sites where its easy to find unicode character by name and copy them to the clipboard. Here is an example

(I have to admit that I’m not always a big fan of unicode characters in source code, but typing unicode in a Julia REPL is so painless that I sometimes compose parts of my emails in the Julia REPL)

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