Re: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

From: Thomas Chan (tc31@cornell.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 13:39:23 EST

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    On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
    > At 15:40 +0100 2003-12-14, Stefan Persson wrote:
    > >Aren't the U+534D and U+5350 only defined for Asian usage, so that
    > >different code points (which seem not to be defined in the current
    > >version of the standard) have to be used for ancient European
    > >purpose?
    >
    > All of the characters in the Unicode Standard are for anyone's use.

    So would all swastikas be unifiable as U+534D and U+5350?

    The entry for U+534D in the _Hanyu Da Zidian_, vol. 1, p. 51 (as indicated
    in unihan.txt) includes a quote that it was originally not a Han
    character, "wan ben fei zi ...", suggesting that it now is. There are
    also serifs shown in that dictionary and the _Kangxi Zidian_ for both
    characters.

    Couldn't the above two characters be considerd a "CJK" or "IDEOGRAPHIC"
    version (like the spaces, zero, punctuation, brackets, etc. in the "CJK
    Symbols and Punctuation" block)?

    Thomas Chan
    tc31@cornell.edu



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