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Microsoft’s Priority Update: Laptop De-Nazification

Cleaning out the inbox, I find this image to recall:
Windows Automatic Update Dialog Box

Yes, apparently there was a swastika or two found in the reserved areas of a font set that had been converted over from some overseas workers who didn’t know any better. The de-Nazification of my laptop was regarded as a Critical Update for Windows that may have required a system reboot.

/danny

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  • Anthony

    It’s sad people over here don’t know any better to think the swastika is nothing but a “nazi” symbol.

  • http://dannyman.toldme.com/ dannyman

    Interestingly,

    If you check in the Wikipedia entry for Swastika, you see that left and right swastika are included in Unicode because they are contained in the Chinese alphabet:

    Left: 卍
    Right: 卐

    Interestingly, I can not see the latter symbol in Firefox / FreeBSD, but Windows users report that they can see the symbol.

    So, it would appear that my free web browser is censored, and Microsoft, thought they issued a “priority update” is not censored.

    What a strange case this is.

    -d

  • http://dannyman.toldme.com/ dannyman

    AHH!!

    Microsoft removed the same symbol tilted 45 degrees. See http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/bookshelf.html

    So, only my fonts are broken.

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