Description: The "insert special character" dialogue has the useful feature that the (English) name of a character can be entered. However, for the Greek letter lambda, the name is mistakenly spelled "LAMDA" (without B) rather than LAMBDA. This applies to both lower- and uppercase. I noticed this as I typed "lamb" and only the character LAMBDA WITH BAR became visible. Restricing to "lam", I could see the character. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In e.g. Writer: Insert > Special character 2. Type LAMB in the "Seek" field Actual Results: Only the character "lambda with stroke" is shown Expected Results: Also lambda, uppercase lambda and small uppercase lambda should be shown. These can be found by just typing LAM, and it can be seen that the names miss the "b" i lambda. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info:
I'm not an expert but would say it's not a bug, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda and this part: " Unicode uses the spelling "lamda" in character names, instead of "lambda", due to "preferences expressed by the Greek National Body" "
Not a bug. We do not maintain English names or translate characters to any other language. Rather, we observe the current Unicode standard definitions for character names/spellings. Those are the the Unicode standard's character names from the Greek & Coptic block of the Basic Multilingual Plane: Λ -- U+039B GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA λ -- U+03BB GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA:lambda But also, Unicode uses it in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block of the Supplementary Multiligual Plane: 𝚲 -- U+1D6B2 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA 𝛌 -- U+1D6CC MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL LAMDA 𝛬 -- U+1D6EC MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA 𝜆 -- U+1D706 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA 𝜦 -- U+1D726 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA 𝝀 -- U+1D740 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA 𝝠 -- U+1D760 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA 𝝺 -- U+1D77A MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL LAMDA 𝞚 -- U+1D79A MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA 𝞴 -- U+1D7B4 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA And there are other code points that use the same spelling: ᴧ -- U+1D207 GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA (from Phonetic Extensions block) -- U+1038D UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA (from Ugaritic block)