# Tab completion after emoji character

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/tab-completion-after-emoji-character/12677>\
**Category:** JupyterLab\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/tab-completion-after-emoji-character/12677 "2022-01-20T15:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![EasyArray](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/easyarray/32/6266_2.png) [@EasyArray](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/EasyArray)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/tab-completion-after-emoji-character/12677/1 "2022-01-20T15:25:56Z")

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Greek letter tab completion works stops working after an emoji unicode character in a code cell. For instance, the first `\alpha` turns into the greek letter α when I hit tab, but the second `\alpha` does not:

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/6/64971343722859ccfc646a71f18375f5759b2777.png)

I’m running JupyterLab 3.0.5 with the following kernel info:

> Python 3.8.6 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Dec 26 2020, 04:30:06) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] … IPython 7.12.0