Re: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

[Michael Everson]

Tibetan experts requested that yung-drung-chi-khor and 
yung-drung-nang-khor be added to the standard. Some people insisted 
that they be unified with the CJK clones. I don't personally think 
that this is a particularly good idea. It has ramifications for font 
binding and is, frankly, one of those silly unifications. In other 
contexts we leave CJK to its own devices. But "symbol squeamishness" 
on the part of those who preferred the unification won the day at 
that time, and we were encoding other Tibetan symbols which took 
precedence.

To respond to Mark Shoulson, one could consider that Hitler's 
svastika was the logo of the National Socialist Party, and therefore 
should not be encoded.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com