Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: general
Topic: VS Code renders a character wrong?
Alex Meiburg (Feb 12 2026 at 04:11):
Confusingly, it seems as though - with the default font - VS Code renders \^varphi ᵠ as if it were a psi.
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It is the "open variant", but this is clearly a psi, not a phi!
Second image: the superscript varphi, phi, varphi, and psi. It's literally the same glyph scaled down.
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Alex Meiburg (Feb 12 2026 at 04:11):
I know that this is the Lean Zulip and not a VS Code support group... but I figured that probably this is not a common issue to run into in many other languages.
Alex Meiburg (Feb 12 2026 at 04:12):
Ironically, there is no superscript psi, although there will be in Unicode 18 (come September). It was the character I wanted to use. But I chose superscript varphi as the closest approximation. Then when I typed it, I was met with this nonsense.
Alex Meiburg (Feb 12 2026 at 04:13):
Oddly, the tooltip renders it correctly. So maybe there's something weirder.
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Eric Wieser (Feb 12 2026 at 04:59):
Which font is this? "Default font" changes by system
Marc Huisinga (Feb 12 2026 at 08:58):
(vscode-lean4#584 - most likely a font issue)
Martin Dvořák (Feb 12 2026 at 10:15):
Just move to JuliaMono, like most of us did.
Last updated: Feb 28 2026 at 14:05 UTC