"Invalid text character. Check for unsupported symbol, invisible character, or pasting of non-ASCII characters." My teacher typed 2ˆ6, and she got the answer, but I don't.

My teacher typed 2ˆ6 and enter, it gave her the answer which is 64 (She uses Matlab installed in VMWare). But when I typed that in my computer which is a MacBook Pro (I am not using VMWare), it shows the quoted message above. What should I do?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Your teacher probably typed

2^6

and you probably typed

2ˆ6

The valid entry is U+005E (unicode 5e)

The invalid entry is U+02C6 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+02C6

[Yuri]

Thanks, but how do I type it in my MacBook so instead of typing the small one, I type the big one. Is there any key with another that pressing themm together makes it show up? Please let me know.