Unicode's greek lambda

[Jan Jakubuv]

Some others are (I have no idea why they are referenced as "lamda"
instead of "lambda"):

039B    GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
03BB    GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA
1D27    GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA
1038D   UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA
1D6B2   MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
1D6CC   MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda
1D6EC   MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
1D706   MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda
1D726   MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
1D740   MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda
1D760   MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
1D77A   MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda
1D79A   MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
1D7B4   MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda

jan.

2008/11/19 David Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:01 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
>>> >   * Remove special lambda unicode character, it didn't work anyway
>>> >   Since lambda is a lower-case letter, it's debatable whether we want to
>>> >   steal it to mean lambda in Haskell source.  However if we did, then we
>>> >   would probably want to make it a "special" symbol, not just a reserved
>>> >   symbol, otherwise writing \x->... (using unicode characters of course)
>>> >   wouldn't work, because \x would be treated as a single identifier,
>>> >   you'd need a space.
>>>
>>> There are a number of mathematical lambdas in Unicode (distinct from teh
>>> Greek lambdas), but they are not in the basic multilingual plane and they
>>> are presumably not very easy to type :-)
>>
>> Do you know what they are? I couldn't find any other than the greek
>> lambda λ and the latin lambda with stroke ƛ.
>
> They're listed under Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols.
> <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf>
>
> e.g., 1D6CC mathematical bold small lambda
>
>
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