# Weave and Unicode

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weave-and-unicode/37048
**Category:** Tooling
**Created:** [April 5, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weave-and-unicode/37048 "2020-04-05T03:19:27Z")
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### Author: ![Noel\_Araujo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/noel_araujo/32/4862_2.png) [@Noel\_Araujo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Noel_Araujo)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weave-and-unicode/37048/1 "2020-04-05T03:19:27Z")

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Hellos

I was testing for fun the Weave.jl package, and I noticed that I cannot make some Unicode symbols to appear. Here an exemple, I create the file `test.jmd` with the lines:

````julia
---
title : Test
date : today
---
​
# Section 1
​
```{julia;echo=true;fig_cap="A random walk."; label="random1"; out_width="9cm"; out_height="4cm"}
@show 1+1

α = "🌴"

using Plots
scatter(rand(10), rand(10), markersize=10, size=(800,600))
`` (please include one extra '`' here for the code to be correct, and remove this comment)

here some symbols : 🌴 (\:palm_tree:)

````

And my palm\_tree does not show up:

 ![Screenshot from 2020-04-05 00-16-48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/0/409086ecf912d9f7571fbd4a47601972062af8a9.png)

Does Weave does not have full support for Unicode ? Or is Latex/Pandoc that is hidding my 🌴 ?

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### Author: ![woclass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/woclass/32/212699_2.png) [@woclass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/woclass)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weave-and-unicode/37048/2 "2020-04-12T11:40:19Z")

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I think is a LaTeX issue.

```tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

here some symbols : 🌴 (:palm_tree:)

\end{document}

```

with `pdflatex`

```julia
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>      
                $
l.4 here some symbols : �🌴 (:pal
                                    tree:)
?

```

you may use [CTAN: Package emoji](https://ctan.org/pkg/emoji) (need TeX Live 2020)

Or convert those emoji to images.

[https://ctan.org/pkg/coloremoji](https://ctan.org/pkg/coloremoji)