# Warning against Unicode confusables

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-against-unicode-confusables/108734>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** unicode\
**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-against-unicode-confusables/108734 "2024-01-09T02:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-against-unicode-confusables/108734/35 "2024-01-12T18:45:11Z")

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At its core, there’s really nothing special about unicode here. It’s all about picking good names — names that **your audience** will understand. See [Naming is hard, let’s do better](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/kate-gregory-naming-is-hard-lets-do-better-and-what-lesson-we-can-learn-from-it/108216).

I think everyone should be able to appreciate that audiences differ wildly throughout the Julia community, with many natural-language and domain-specific subgroups.

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