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A quick search brought me to [1] which says: <quote> As noted by Roozbeh Pournader: Neither Farsi, nor a symbol. In real life, it is the official emblem of t

A quick search brought me to [1] which says: <quote> As noted by Roozbeh Pournader: Neither Farsi, nor a symbol. In real life, it is the official emblem of the goverment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Technically that would make it a logo and thus not a suitable candidate for encoding. But Roozbeh also noted: Exactly. The funny fact is that it has been in Unicode since 1.0... </quote> How reliable this is I don't know, but it sounds plausible. [1] http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/363208.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/36320...

tialaramex 6y ago
It's interesting, I'd guessed it was a compatibility choice but there doesn't seem to be any evidence for that. Aside: Microsoft sucks for having purged blogs like that one. The archive you're looking at captures most of what was once Michael Kaplan's blog at Microsoft. Kaplan was terminated by Microsoft and then died, and his blog was one of a large number of valuable blogs with insights into Windows technologies that at some point were "tidied away" because they didn't fit whatever nonsense brand vision somebody had that week.
- mark-r 6y ago
  I really hate the way Microsoft rearranges their web pages seemingly on a whim. You can't rely on a link to them being useful for any significant period of time, and as you note useful information is lost on a frequent basis.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    It’s not just Microsoft. Apple regularly deprecates and moves around or deleted old documentation, too.
  - tialaramex 6y ago
    Where applicable: Look for URLs in aka.ms - this looks superficially like a link shortener but (whether by corporate policy or just people inside Microsoft agree with us) they are maintained so that when the pages are all shuffled around the aka.ms links still get where you were going. https://aka.ms/RootCert https://aka.ms/RootCert will always be Microsoft's Root Trust programme documentation (how a Certificate Authority like Let's Encrypt gets themselves listed as trusted in Windows) even when Microsoft decides that page should now be in the form of a GIF anim or a 3D bullet hell game.

tialaramex 6y ago

It's interesting, I'd guessed it was a compatibility choice but there doesn't seem to be any evidence for that. Aside: Microsoft sucks for having purged blogs like that one. The archive you're looking at captures most of what was once Michael Kaplan's blog at Microsoft. Kaplan was terminated by Microsoft and then died, and his blog was one of a large number of valuable blogs with insights into Windows technologies that at some point were "tidied away" because they didn't fit whatever nonsense brand vision somebody had that week.

mark-r 6y ago
I really hate the way Microsoft rearranges their web pages seemingly on a whim. You can't rely on a link to them being useful for any significant period of time, and as you note useful information is lost on a frequent basis.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  It’s not just Microsoft. Apple regularly deprecates and moves around or deleted old documentation, too.
- tialaramex 6y ago
  Where applicable: Look for URLs in aka.ms - this looks superficially like a link shortener but (whether by corporate policy or just people inside Microsoft agree with us) they are maintained so that when the pages are all shuffled around the aka.ms links still get where you were going. https://aka.ms/RootCert https://aka.ms/RootCert will always be Microsoft's Root Trust programme documentation (how a Certificate Authority like Let's Encrypt gets themselves listed as trusted in Windows) even when Microsoft decides that page should now be in the form of a GIF anim or a 3D bullet hell game.