# Vscode unicode auto completion does not work in julia 1.10.4
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242 "2024-08-15T23:24:16Z")
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### Author:  [@imantha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/imantha)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/1 "2024-08-15T23:24:16Z")
Vs code doesn’t register the unicode auto completion anymore. For example when I type, \sigma , the unicode character doesn’t appear anymore. My current Julia is 1.10.4 but I think it happened earlier than this release.
This is in my Mac VS code btw. Also note that unicode character completion works fine when you open the REPL in the terminal. So its VS code .ipynb/.jl script related issue.
Not sure how to sort this out any ideas ?
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/2 "2024-08-16T00:07:16Z")
You can install a vscode extension to do this independent of Julia: [Unicode Latex - Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oijaz.unicode-latex)
(There also seem to be several forks of this extension, e.g. [GitHub - studykit/unicode-latex: A visual studio code extension to insert Unicode symbols given LaTeX symbol names](https://github.com/studykit/unicode-latex?tab=readme-ov-file) and [Unicode LaTeX Input - Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gao-shuhua.vsc-unicode-latex) … but it’s not clear to me that these are any better?)
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### Author:  [@imantha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/imantha)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/3 "2024-08-25T07:52:17Z")
Had to remove `~/.julia` folder to get it working !
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### Author:  [@pitipatw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pitipatw)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/4 "2025-05-02T03:03:24Z")
Sorry, I’m trying to solve this problem too,
But isn’t that where julia.exe exist?
Or you mean from the VSCode?
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### Author:  [@imantha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/imantha)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/5 "2025-05-02T10:09:25Z")
Sorry it’s been a while, can’t remember exactly what I did. But yeah that where the Julia packages etc are. My belief is that I reinstalled everything.
Yeah Unicode wasn’t working in VSCode. In the REPL it was working fine !
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### Author:  [@pitipatw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pitipatw)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/6 "2025-05-26T21:28:01Z")
it seems that mine got to work after a while.
I’m not sure what exactly happen, but maybe an update?
Anyway, thank you for the follow up!
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### Author:  [@Rojesh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rojesh)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-unicode-auto-completion-does-not-work-in-julia-1-10-4/118242/7 "2025-11-20T03:18:52Z")
I had the same problem, I fixed it by adding the release channel to juliaup
`juliaup add release`
and restarting the julia extension in vscode. It might take some time for the juliaserver to load, once it suggested autocompletion for commands, unicode auto completion also worked.