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from this typeface. According to Microsoft Office product manager Simon Marks, the Star of David was removed from Bookshelf Symbol 7 due to its proximity to the swastikas, but remains in other fonts shipped by Microsoft.
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in this font (one diagonal, one straight), complaining that they did not like having the font on their computers. After being informed of the issue, Microsoft contacted several Jewish organizations about the font.
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released a critical update (KB833407) for Microsoft Office 2003 to remove "unacceptable symbols" from this font. This update removed the two swastikas and a
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encoding several less common variants of Roman letters (including a small subset of those used in the
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In December 2003, Microsoft published a tool to remove the font from Microsoft Office, and
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Diagonal right-pointing swastika, similar in orientation and rotation to the thick
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Everson, Michael; Fynn, Christopher; Scharf, Peter; West, Andrew (2007-05-09).
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In late 2003, several customers contacted Microsoft about the inclusion of two
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Table displaying the full Microsoft Office XP Bookshelf Symbol 7 font
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Unicode U+0FD5 (as a religious symbol) or U+5350 (as a
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The removed symbols are shown in the chart below at
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Category
Symbol
Designer(s)
Foundry
Ricoh
Bookshelf Symbol 7 sample text
typeface
Microsoft Office 2003
pi font
International Phonetic Alphabet
torii
kanji
swastikas
Steven Sinofsky
Microsoft
Star of David
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