{"id":5354,"date":"2004-04-01T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/01\/oooooh-critical.html"},"modified":"2004-04-01T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T01:07:17","slug":"oooooh_critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/01\/oooooh_critical.html","title":{"rendered":"Oooooh … critical <\/i>…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I can be politically sensitive. And I can understand why Microsoft would prefer to remove the swastikas from their Bookshelf Symbol 7 font <\/a>(which seems to be distributed with Office 2003). And, like this site<\/a>, I could ask, How do you mistakenly include not one, but two swastikas in a product?<\/i> .<\/p>\n

But … um … while I appreciate their sending out an automatic update to “fix” the problem, is that really a Critical <\/i>Update for Windows <\/b>(italics mine)?<\/p>\n

This item updates the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in some Microsoft products. This font has been found to contain unacceptable symbols.<\/p>\n

Based on this Microsoft KB article<\/a>, doing this could break Japanese installs of O2K3. Swell. This KB article<\/a>, which updates it, softpedals that problem, though it doesn’t go into any more detail. <\/p>\n

According to this article<\/a>, the font was licensed from Ricoh, and is used (reversed) as a Buddhist symbol of good luck and prosperity, and is frequently seen on Japanese maps <\/a>for Shinto temples, which might explain why it was there in the first place.<\/p>\n

The Register notes that not only do the swastikas vanish with the update, so does another symbol <\/a>that some folks might consider too politically charged.<\/p>\n

But, regardless of the reason, does it really deserve to be called a Critical <\/i>Update?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I can be politically sensitive. 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