Re: Greek letter "LAMDA"?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 16:50:05 CDT

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    Robert Abel noted:

    > It seems U+019B is the only instance where "lambda" is used. All other
    > instances use "lamda". So it seems the slip-up is the other way around,
    > whatever the initial reasoning for using "lamda" was.

    It was not a slip-up. It was deliberate at the time (1993).

    Note that as of 1993, the only "LAMDA" or "LAMBDA" characters
    in the standard were:

    039B;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA;;;03BB;
    03BB;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA;;039B;;039B
    019B;LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED
    LAMBDA;;;;

    Also note that all 3 of those data entries from UnicodeData.txt have
    explicit Unicode 1.0 data fields, showing different names for
    Unicode 1.0.

    All *other* "LAMDA" characters were added considerably later,
    and their choices for spelling were influenced by the then
    standardized spelling for 039B/03BB, and by preferences expressed
    by various national body during balloting.

    Note that:

    1038D;UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

    is a distinct issue, and would no doubt would still have been spelled "LAMDA",
    even if all the Greek characters in the standard had been
    spelled "LAMBDA".

    --Ken



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