Re: Different names for Unicode codepoint

[tomas]

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:04:32PM +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> 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 "<stdin>", line 1
>     SyntaxError: (unicode error) ...: unknown Unicode character name

FWIW, "my" Emacs [1] says:

  Character code properties: customize what to show
    name: LESS-THAN WITH DOT
    old-name: LESS THAN WITH DOT

That means the spelling without the dash seems to be somewhat oldish.

[1] GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.29)
    of 2016-03-07

regards
- -- tomás
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