Unicode name questions

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Apr 16 17:57:35 EDT 2002


    Brian> Your spelling of the first two isn't quite right (at least
    Brian> according to the Unicode guys). Remove the "B" from "LAMBDA".

"Lambda" has been spelled with a "b" as long as I can remember.  I see both
"LAMBDA" and "LAMDA" in the comments in the encodings modules though.  I'll
give it a try.  Note that

    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

spells it with a "b".

    Brian> And change "GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA SYMBOL" to "GREEK SMALL
    Brian> LETTER THETA"

Note that there are both 'θ' and 'ϑ' HTML entities.  I found
it here:

    http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html

but also saw it here:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

where it is marked "new".  I suspect perhaps Python's codecs just haven't
caught up yet.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)





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