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bug#30513: Unicode Character Name is misspelled (MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMA


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#30513: Unicode Character Name is misspelled (MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:31:00 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:04:24 -0500
> Cc: 30513@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Michael Grünewald <michipili@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The Unicode character 𝜆 has its name misspelled, it should be
> >
> >   MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMBDA
> >
> > instead of 
> >
> >   MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA
> >
> > (notice a B is missing in the second variant).
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda says:
> 
>     Unicode uses the spelling "lamda" in character names, instead of
>     "lambda", due to "preferences expressed by the Greek National Body"[14]
> 
> [14]: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0063.html

Indeed.  And Emacs takes the names from the Unicode character database
anyway, so we cannot misspell the names.

Note that some LAMDA letters have the "old name" property that uses
LAMBDA, but this specific character doesn't (probably because it was
added after the above-mentioned preference was adopted by the Unicode
consortium).





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