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More Idiocy from Microsoft
Posted: 2003-12-12 04:14pm
by General Zod
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?
Posted: 2003-12-12 04:44pm
by Tribun
What a BS.
Posted: 2003-12-12 06:27pm
by DPDarkPrimus
"Inadvertently"?
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:14pm
by Howedar
They apparently borrowed a Japanese font.
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:21pm
by Symmetry
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.
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:25pm
by SPOOFE
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.
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:51pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Hmm.... so, possibly, my old Japanese font I have on my computer could contain a swastika?
Hmm.
Posted: 2003-12-13 01:54pm
by Sharp-kun
Pity the Swaskika was an ancient symbol abused by the Nazi's.
Posted: 2003-12-13 11:56pm
by Graeme Dice
I suppose people will be asking for Swastika Ontario's name to be changed again in the near future.
Posted: 2003-12-14 12:21am
by lazerus
*sigh* Yanno, there was a time when Dark Overlords never took any BS from anybody. Now Lord Bill is always worried about PR.