RE: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 14:34:18 EST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Everson [mailto:everson@evertype.com]

> 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).

This news story has nothing to do with those characters. The font in
question is a symbol font; symbol fonts do not encode Unicode
characters.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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