[perl #75448] charnames::viacode returning less correct name

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This is a bug report for perl from khw@khw-desktop.nonet,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.13.1.


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Unicode occasionally makes mistakes and publishes an incorrect name for 
a character, such as having a typo.  That name is grandfathered in as 
legal, but they later will publish the corrected name which maps to the 
same code point.

viacode should return the corrected name.  It doesn't.
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Flags:
     category=library
     severity=medium
     module=charnames
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Site configuration information for perl 5.13.1:

Configured by khw at Mon May 24 07:06:34 MDT 2010.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 13 subversion 1) configuration:
   Commit id: b081dd7eaaec2b6ee43335645ab40cff0ca3f91a
   Platform:
     osname=linux, osvers=2.6.27-17-generic, archname=i686-linux
     uname='linux khw-desktop 2.6.27-17-generic #1 smp fri mar 12 
03:09:00 utc 2010 i686 gnulinux '
     config_args='-s -d -Dprefix=/home/khw/blead -Dusedevel 
-D'optimize=-g3' -A'optimize=-g3' -A'optimize=-O0''
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
     useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe 
-fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
     optimize='-O0 -g3',
     cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector 
-I/usr/local/include'
     ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.2', gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=4, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
     libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
     perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
     libc=/lib/libc-2.8.90.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
     gnulibc_version='2.8.90'
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -g3 -g3 -O0 -L/usr/local/lib 
-fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl 5.13.1:
     lib
     /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.13.1/i686-linux
     /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.13.1
     /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/5.13.1/i686-linux
     /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/5.13.1
     /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl
     .

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Environment for perl 5.13.1:
     HOME=/home/khw
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
     LANGUAGE (unset)
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
     LOGDIR (unset)
 
PATH=/home/khw/bin:/home/khw/print/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/khw/cxoffice/bin
     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
     SHELL=/bin/ksh

• [perl #75448] charnames::viacode returning less correct name by karl williamson