[78-L] more on swastika

[joe@salerno.com]

Did a little searching on the net.

The swastika dates from ancient India, but was introduced into China 
with Buddhism. That version is backwards or angled from the version made 
infamous by the Nazis.

It is, or was?, available in East Indian at U+534D

Microsoft encountered some controversy over the inclusion of the symbol 
and removed it and all the versions not too long ago, so it is not on my 
Vista box. Apparently, it was in wing dings, which I did find on my machine.

Languages are so complicated....so to answer Mike's question, it depends 
on the age of your computer. You may have a swaskita in character map or 
not. I am not sure, but it may have been removed in some update.

joe salerno