America's War on Language

[W Brewer]

BB:  <<Although there seems to be some cross-over, orientation is
important. The right-handed swastika is the Nazi symbol. The left-handed
swastika is Buddhist>>
WB:  I've heard this a lot, but it's not borne out on the ground, here
anyway. (See Wikipedia illustrations, too.)  WG, which way was Hideo's
manji facing? Left or right? Was the FBI aware of an orientation criterion?
Were you?
     Wikip:  <<The swastika is included as part of the Chinese script and
has Unicode encodings U+534D . . . (left-facing) and U+5350 . . .
(right-facing); the latter has a mapping in the original Big5 character
set, but the former does not (although it is in Big5+).>>  (Mandarin wan4,
Cantonese maahn.)

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