Microsoft Word is obviously bringing hidden anti

[Koos de Heer]

This is not specific to MS-Word. The font Wingdings is a special font containing just
symbols. Any sequence of letters will generate a sequence of symbols when the font
Wingdings is applied to it. It does not matter whether this is done in Word, or in any
other application like Quark Xpress or whatever. It is just the way the Wingdings
character set is put together. Now I guess the Wingdings character set may well be a
Microsoft product as well. But there are many more lettercombinations that will generate
all sorts of symbol combinations in Wingsings, or in other fonts like Symbol or Webdings
or Outlook. I think we should take care not to become paranoid about this.

Koos

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>From  Tue Sep 18 09:59:49 2001
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:59:49 -0700
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From: BJ Peters <bjpeters at amug.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word is obviously bringing hidden anti
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Viele-- I do not believe there is any intentional hidden hate-message here. In
the Wingding font, these symbols have been attached to these letters randomly
and have been that way for as long as I've been using Microsoft Office. I
believe it is a dreadfully sad and unfortunate coincidence rather than a
conspiracy.

BJ Peters

Hape Etzold wrote:

> Dear all,
> as all of you I am deeply shocked about this murderous outbreak of hatred on
> 11th sept. Today somebody seemed to prove to me, that this kind of hatred is
> so deeply rooted, that even Microsoft Software is containing hidden
> hate-messages.
>
> Write in large letters NYC on Microsoft-Word, choose wingdings as the format
> of the font, Word then tranlates NYC into brutal and disgusting sign
> language: Thumbs up for the killing of the Jewish Community.
> Does this appear on your versions of MS-WORD as well? Is it coincidence? Or
> does it say something about some people at Microsoft and the society we are
> living in?
>
> When writing this, I wonder whether it is ok to spread this fact. But Open
> Space is about talking openly. Only when bringing this hatred into the open,
> we can do something about it and deal with it effectively.
>
> Love to you all - Hape concerned and happy to share this concern with you
>
> Viele Grüsse
>
> Hape Etzold
> Combrains
> www.combrains.de
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