From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lele Gaifax Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.comp.python.general Subject: Different names for Unicode codepoint Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:04:32 +0200 Organization: Nautilus Entertainments Message-ID: <87wpnqsrzz.fsf@metapensiero.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461265539 6194 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2016 19:05:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:05:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: python-list@python.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 21:05:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1atJun-0005Lw-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:05:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atJum-00040o-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atJuZ-0003q3-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atJuW-0003Ot-CW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atJuW-0003Nr-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1atJuR-00056H-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 151.62.140.100 ([151.62.140.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from lele by 151.62.140.100 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.62.140.100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uE6qd77wWo9otAbkNxK//5fh1nU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109799 gmane.comp.python.general:794103 Archived-At: Hi, is there a particular reason for the slightly different names that Emacs (version 25.0.92) and Python (version 3.6.0a0) give to a single Unicode entity? Just to mention one codepoint, ⋖ is called "LESS THAN WITH DOT" accordingly to Emacs' C-x 8 RET TAB menu, while in Python: >>> import unicodedata >>> unicodedata.name('⋖') 'LESS-THAN WITH DOT' >>> print("\N{LESS THAN WITH DOT}") File "", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) ...: unknown Unicode character name ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. lele@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.