I don’t know what happened between the last time I opened this particular code project (I tabled it for a time to work on something else): but now the Unicode characters look funny. Since I haven’t updated my Julia version in a long while, my best guess is that it is a VS Code extension or some othe…

Ah! Thank you! That was the thing that had changed. My machine got LCM’d by IT and I had forgotten to switch the font: I did have JuliaMono set before. [image] Any idea why I still get this pop-up for the \Vert Unicode character in VS Code? [image]

From poking around the Discourse a little, it seems as though some Unicode characters are supported and some are not: e. g. Rationale behind excluding some unicode characters from identifiers - #11 by t-bltg But that doesn’t seem to explain the issue I found with \Vert which does TAB-complete: c. f…

[image] jmanthony3: But that doesn’t seem to explain the issue I found with \Vert which does TAB-complete Just because it tab-completes doesn’t mean that it is a valid character in Julia identifiers. ‖ is a punctuation character (category Po, “punctuation, other”), and typically punctuation …

That does make sense that not all possible characters can be used for all purposes. Some are reserved or ambiguous. I was initially confused because it did TAB-complete. Thank y’all for helping and clarifying!

What happened to parsing Unicode characters?

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goerz June 20, 2025, 1:26am 2

Sounds like a font issue! Make sure you have JuliaMono installed and set up

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What happened to parsing Unicode characters?

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