Cleaning out the inbox, I find this image to recall: 
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.
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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.
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
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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