Re: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 16:49:09 EST

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    De: "Philippe Verdy"

    > May be the Unicode name should not be swastika but a transliteration of an
    > Asian name (Tibetan, Chinese Pinyin...),

    swastika is a translitteration of an Asian name. a sanskrit one.

    The Unicode and ISO 10646 names are not swastika.

    The names are :

    CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534D
    CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5350

    (
    And in the ISO10646 French version :
    IDÉOGRAMME CJC UNIFIÉ-534D
    IDÉOGRAMME CJC UNIFIÉ-5350
    ;-)
    )

    Concerning CJK read somewhere Korea wanted to be named Corea in English.
    http://www.onzetaal.nl/nieuws/opinternet/a0309.html
    http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2003/0930/politik/0041/index.html?keywords=Korea%20Corea;mark=korea%20corea

    >and all references to "swastika"
    > (included in code charts, and the name index) removed if they ever occur
    > somewhere in the standard or in a proposal.

    Pffft. N'importe quoi ! as we say.

    How about removing the S rune that allows crypto-nazi to write SS ?

    - o - O - o -
    ISO 10646 en français
    Noms et annotations Unicode 4.0 en bêta
    http://pages.infinit.net/hapax

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