RE: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

From: Peter Constable ([email protected])
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 13:58:13 EST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf
> Of Michael Everson

> To respond to Mark Shoulson, one could consider that Hitler's
> svastika was the logo of the National Socialist Party, and therefore
> should not be encoded.

IIRC, encoding of the Nazi logo was discussed on this list back in 1999
and was strongly opposed by most participants.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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