[Bug 182660] Re: Typo in character map (Greek)

[Simos Xenitellis]

These names come from Unicode.org and I can confirm the error is with the Unicode files,
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

$ grep LAMDA UnicodeData.txt 
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
1D27;GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
1038D;UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
1D6B2;MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;<font> 039B;;;;N;;;;;
1D6CC;MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;<font> 03BB;;;;N;;;;;
1D6EC;MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;<font> 039B;;;;N;;;;;
1D706;MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;<font> 03BB;;;;N;;;;;
1D726;MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;<font> 039B;;;;N;;;;;
1D740;MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;<font> 03BB;;;;N;;;;;
1D760;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;<font> 039B;;;;N;;;;;
1D77A;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;<font> 03BB;;;;N;;;;;
1D79A;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;<font> 039B;;;;N;;;;;
1D7B4;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;<font> 03BB;;;;N;;;;;

$ grep LAMBDA UnicodeData.txt
019B;LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED LAMBDA;;;;
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

My understanding is that the correct form is LAMDA. 
I believe that in either Unicode 1.x or 2.x, they made a mistake and put LAMBDA. However, being a standard they could not fix the typo in the older codepoint descriptions.

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Typo in character map (Greek)
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