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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-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
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.
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They may have claymores and Dragons, but we have Bolos and Ogres.
Hmm.... so, possibly, my old Japanese font I have on my computer could contain a swastika?
Hmm.
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Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
I suppose people will be asking for Swastika Ontario's name to be changed again in the near future.
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-- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) Scottish physicist. In a letter to C. H. Cay, 5 January 1865.