More Idiocy from Microsoft

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2003-12-12 04:14pm

CNN wrote:SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said Friday that its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it will offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program.

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a little overboard on the political correctness maybe?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-12 04:44pm

What a BS.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-12-12 06:27pm

"Inadvertently"?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-12 07:14pm

They apparently borrowed a Japanese font.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2003-12-12 07:21pm

So they removed a normal character from a Japanese font because it might offend someone to learn that the Japanese having been using them to mean something other than Nazism for thousands of years. Score one more for political correctness.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-12-12 07:25pm

This isn't Microsoft's idiocy. This is the idiocy of namby-pamby PC-ers that have dumbed down America's perception of foreign culture.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-12-12 07:51pm

Hmm.... so, possibly, my old Japanese font I have on my computer could contain a swastika?

Hmm.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2003-12-13 01:54pm

Pity the Swaskika was an ancient symbol abused by the Nazi's.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2003-12-13 11:56pm

I suppose people will be asking for Swastika Ontario's name to be changed again in the near future.

lazerus · Post by **lazerus** » 2003-12-14 12:21am

*sigh* Yanno, there was a time when Dark Overlords never took any BS from anybody. Now Lord Bill is always worried about PR.