Issue with use of special characters

I am sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything on it..

Doing something like this:

for ß in np.geomspace(1,100,10) :

Will break ... it seems that Atom thinks there is a misplaced (,{,[ because the color coding is lost and then I am unable to fold anything after that, but the code runs fine.

I believe it is the use of ß, as i,j,k work fine. 