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Re: Greek symbols mangled by InputForm

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• Subject: [mg130110] Re: Greek symbols mangled by InputForm
• From: carlos%colorado.edu at gtempaccount.com
• Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:48:43 -0500 (EST)
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On Friday, March 8, 2013 2:46:25 PM UTC-7, John Fultz wrote:
> 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]]

Would it be sufficient to put

$CharacterEncoding="Unicode";

at the start of the NB?

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