Hi, My two cents,
I started using μ and Σ in my code for normal distributions a while ago. On the mac, these symbols happen to exist in the US keyboard, but they turn out to in different unicode positions than the Greek alphabet letters, so apparently these option-US-keyboad entries have the meaning "micro" and "sum". On the screen, they look identical to the greek letters---so this can lead to bit of confusion. In my current working environment I have a full greek keyboard defined, and switch between US and greek using a shortcut command-space. This gives me fairly quick access to the full greek symbol repertoire without having to remember unicode codes. Cheers, ---david On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:26:57 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Since Julia source code can use Unicode identifiers, I thought this > slightly off-topic blog post by John D. Cook might be useful to people: > > http://www.johndcook.com/symbols/2013/12/how-to-enter-unicode-characters/ > > In particular, I learned about the Unicode Hex input mode for OS X. >
