MATLAB: How to get a specific variant of the greek symbol tau

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Is there a way to get the following form of the tau symbol for matlab?
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I want to use this on the axis of a plot and currently I am using the following code to do this
xlabel('{\tau}').
However, this gives the following symbol, without any hook on the bottom
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Best Answer

The latex symbol for this is \uptau, unfortunately matlab latex parser doesn't support it.
As Sindar commented, you can try to get around by using a unicode character instead. Indeed U+1D70F would be the correct symbol and assuming your default font supports it, it would be the way to go. Matlab uses UTF16, U+1D70F is [0xD835 0xDF0F]in UTF16:
xlabel(char([0xD835 0xDF0F]));  %Requires R2019b or later. Earlier versions use: char([55349 57103])
Another option would be to find a font installed on your system that renders the normal tau, U+3C4, as you want. On my system, the Times font does the job:
xlabel(char(0x3C4), 'FontName', 'Times');
It's going to be trial and error for finding a suitable font. You can list the fonts available on your system with listfonts.
Note that the font does not affect latex of tex symbols.
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