Unicode name questions

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Tue Apr 16 17:10:38 EDT 2002


Hi Skip,

>     _entities['Λ'] = u"\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA}"
>     _entities['λ'] = u"\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA}"
>     _entities['ϑ'] = u"\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA SYMBOL}"
> 
> Have I got the names wrong or are there some missing character names
in
> Python's Unicode support?

This page is worth book marking:
http://www.unicode.org/charts

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

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

Cheers,
Brian







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