# Unicode \\epsilon\\\_y

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicode-epsilon-y/29429>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicode-epsilon-y/29429 "2019-10-03T02:07:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicode-epsilon-y/29429/20 "2019-10-04T10:48:37Z")

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FWIW, over the course of the last 3 years, I was

1. initially very _skeptical_ of the utility of Unicode in code (“it is just a gimmick”),
2. then realized that it can be _extremely useful_,
3. then got carried away with stuff like `∂Γ₀` (with a bar but that does not render correctly here)
4. then realized that maintaining code with an _excess_ of Unicode is not that fun.

I am now sympathetic to (implicit, or somewhat rarely, explicit) Unicode-preferences of various packages and try to follow them when I contribute, but I try to use it only when it makes my code significantly more readable.

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