Re: Greek symbols mangled by InputForm
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- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:48:08 -0500 (EST)
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That has nothing to do with the notebook being very old. That's just a
stupid bug in how InputForm communications between kernel and FE happen.
We already had an open bug report about this, and I just pinged the bug
again with a reference to your post. Here's a way you could work around
the bug:
Block[{$CharacterEncoding = "Unicode"}, Print[\[Mu]//InputForm]]
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:49 PM, carlos%colorado.edu at gtempaccount.com wrote:
> I opened a very old notebook (done in Mathematica 4 some 10 years ago)
under Mathematica 9.0.1 running under Mac OS X 10.6.9. The InputForm
output of Greek symbols is mangled. For example
>
> Print[\[Mu]//InputForm]
>
> produces a circumflexed I followed by the 1/4 fraction. Cutting and
pasting that output into an Input cell reproduces that garbage. The
problem seems to occur only with that filter, which unfortunately I use
a lot for inlining code.
>
> Is there an option that can be set so that the Greek symbols are
respected?
> Thanks.
>
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- Greek symbols mangled by InputForm