From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30513: Unicode Character Name is misspelled (MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:31:00 +0200 Message-ID: <838tbqb6pn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r2pi5og7.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518971481 21268 195.159.176.226 (18 Feb 2018 16:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michipili@gmail.com, 30513@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 18 17:31:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRrM-0002yY-8w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:30:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRtO-0004uU-F4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRsk-0004fB-Kk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRsg-0000rn-HL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRsg-0000rY-Dw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRsg-0006NG-4q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:32:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30513 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 30513-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30513.151897146821750 (code B ref 30513); Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30513) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2018 16:31:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49949 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRro-0005e3-0O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50824) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRrm-0005WB-1E for 30513@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRrc-0000XI-J5 for 30513@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:31:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enRrc-0000XE-Fw; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1210 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1enRrb-0006Ix-S4; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:30:56 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r2pi5og7.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:04:24 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143421 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:04:24 -0500 > Cc: 30513@debbugs.gnu.org > > Michael Grünewald 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).