Re: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> The following story was forwarded to me. The "offending" characters
> in question are, I take it, the left-facing and right-facing

swastika

> symbols, often used in Tibetan, found among the Chinese ideographs

at

> U+534D (yung-drung-chi-khor) and U+5350 (yung-drung-nang-khor).
>
> I hope that this story is not true.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?

tmpl=story&cid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20031212/wr_nm/tech_microsoft_swastika_dc

>
> =====
> SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) said on
> Friday that its latest version of Office software inadvertently
> contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer
> tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the

program.

It is a bit unsettling. But, as long as they don't completely remove
it from the program, and instead make it so that those who so wish
can remove it but it is not forced upon everybody, I for one have no
problem with it.

--Mark