Re: [Maxima-discuss] How to set unicode characters for variables

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:09 PM ehm <eri...@gm...> wrote:

> (%i4) hbar: unicode("latin small letter h with stroke");

Pretty sure what's going on is that hbar is now a string, not a
symbol. Try hbar: parse_string(unicode(...)) to get a symbol from a
string. (parse_string parses any Maxima expression, in this case just
returning the symbol since that's all there is in the string.)

best

Robert