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First thing I think with that is : How the fuck can I make that symbol? I'll load up google, then find unicode charts and locate this. So writing your variable

• TazeTSchnitzel 15y ago
  On Linux (and there's some similar utility for windows), there's a key sequence to enter arbitrary Unicode code points.
  • pnathan 15y ago
    It's not per se entering the silly thing, it's figuring out which code it is.
• kragen 15y ago
  If the variable name is Chinese, use an appropriate input method. Otherwise, maybe set up your keyboard with a compose key (and lowercase parens) http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html and possibly install a bigger XCompose map so you can type Greek letters conveniently https://github.com/kragen/xcompose https://github.com/kragen/xcompose.
• evincarofautumn 15y ago
  Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but if you’re using Windows, Linux, or OSX, you do have a searchable character map. That fails when you don’t know the name of the character, in which case you can use something like Shapecatcher (http://shapecatcher.com/ http://shapecatcher.com/), but then how do you know whether it’s a Greek theta or a Coptic thethe or a Cherokee na or Cyrillic fita or Latin barred O? Clearly our editing powers need to improve if we’re to feasibly use non–English-alphanumeric variable names.