Bookshelf Symbol 7

Infobox font


style = Symbol
date = 2003?
creator = ?
foundry = ?
sample = |

"Bookshelf Symbol 7" is a typeface which comes packaged with Microsoft Office 2003.

In 2004, Microsoft released a critical update ( [http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833407 Knowledge Base Article 833407] ) to remove two swastikas (one diagonal, one straight) and a Star of David from this typeface, presumably after complaints from users who took the swastikas as support for Nazism. Despite the patch, the symbols in question are still used by fonts shipped with Windows:

*MingLiU, PMingLiu: Swastika, Sauwastika
*MS Mincho, MS PMincho, MS Gothic, MS PGothic: Sauwastika, Star of David
*SimSun, NSimSun, SimHei: Swastika, Sauwastika
*Batang, BatangChe, Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe: Sauwastika

In addition, Arial Unicode MS has Swastika, Sauwastika, Star of David.

External links

* [http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833404 Description of the Bookshelf Symbol 7 Font Removal Tool in Office 2003]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/dec03/12-12FontLetter.mspx An Open Letter from Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky]
* [http://blog.opennetcf.org/afeinman/PermaLink,guid,c03a1a69-b1e7-4044-83f9-5fe06cbd2647.aspx The Bookshelf Symbol 7 font "controversy"]
* [http://dready.org/blog/2004/02/12/ms-bookshelf-symbol-7-update/ Before and after the font update and discussions around the issue]