Bookshelf Symbol 7

Bookshelf Symbol 7 is a typeface which was packaged with Microsoft Office 2003. It is a pi font encoding several less common variants of Roman letters, including a small subset of those used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, a few musical symbols and mathematical symbols, a few additional symbols (including torii) and a few rare or obscure kanji.

Bookshelf Symbol 7

Category	Symbol
Designer(s)	?
Foundry	Ricoh
Sample

In 2004, Microsoft released a critical update (Knowledge Base Article 833407) to remove two swastikas (one diagonal, one straight) and a Star of David from this typeface, shown in the chart below as 0x7E (not displayed for lack of Unicode character), 0x86, and 0x74 respectively, presumably after complaints from users who took the swastikas as support for Nazism.[1]

Encoding

Bookshelf Symbol 7

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_ 0
1_ 16
2_ 32	SP 0020	ǎ 01CE	ā́ 0101 0304	b́ 0062 0301	B́ 0042 0301	Ć 0106	D́ 0044 0301	D̀ 0044 0300	F́ 0046 0301	f́ 0066 0301	℉ 2109	Ǵ 01F4	G̀ 0047 0300	H́ 0048 0301	h́ 0068 0301	ǐ 01D0
3_ 48	ī́ 012B 0304	Ḿ 1E3E	m̥ 006D 0325	Ǹ 01F8	Ṕ 1E54	ṕ 1E55	P̀ 0050 0300	Q́ 0051 0301	q́ 0071 0301	Q̀ 0051 0300	S̀ 0053 0300	T́ 0054 0301	t́ 0074 0301	T̀ 0054 0300	ṭ 1E6D	V́ 0056 0301
4_ 64	V̀ 0056 0300	X́ 0058 0301	ȳ 0233	ɑ́ 0251 0301	ɑ̀ 0251 0300	ɑ̃ 0251 0300	ɪ́ 026A 0301	ɪ̀ 026A 0300	ᴜ 1D1C	ᴜ́ 1D1C 0301	ᴜ̀ 1D1C 0300	ʌ́ 028C 0301	ʌ̀ 028C 0300	ə́ 0259 0301	ə̀ 0259 0300	ɚ́ 025A 0301
5_ 80	ɚ̀ 025A 0300	ɔ́ 0254 0301	ɔ̀ 0254 0300	ɔ̃ 0254 0303	ɛ̃ 025B 0303	æ̀ 00E6 0300	œ́ 0153 0301	œ̃ 0153 0303	ʤ 02A4	ŋ 014B	1̇ 0031 0307	3̇ 0033 0307	4́ 0034 0301	8́ 0038 0301	－́ FF0D 0301	－̀ FF0D 0300
6_ 96	〜́ 301C 0301	〜̀ 301C 0300	…́ 2026 0301	♩ 2669	𝄐 1D110	𝄑 1D111	♮ 266E	𝅝  1D15D	𝄞[lower-alpha 1] 1D11E	𝄪 1D12A	[lower-alpha 2] 0024	∓ 2213	≓ 2253	=⃥ 003D 20E5	↘ 2198	↗ 2197
7_ 112	✓ 2713	┒ 2512	‴ 2034	┈ 2508	✡[lower-alpha 3] 2721	⁂ 2042	[lower-alpha 4]	♥ 2665	♠ 2660	⁀ 2040	‿ 203F	︷ FE37	悪⃝ 60AA 20DD	善⃝ 5584 20DD	�[lower-alpha 5]
8_ 128	�[lower-alpha 6]	〽 303D	﹅ FE45	◦ 25E6	• 2022	⛩ 26E9	࿕[lower-alpha 7] 0FD5	𥝱 25771	𩺊 29E8A	焮 712E	莽[lower-alpha 8] 83BD	攲 6532	麽 9EBD	𩸽 29E3D	鯼 9BFC	〻 303B
9_ 144	[lower-alpha 9]	汴 6C74	㕞 355E
A_ 160
B_ 176
C_ 192
D_ 208
E_ 224
F_ 240

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

1. A treble clef.
2. Double barred dollar sign.
3. Removed by KB833407.
4. Turned asterism, i.e. ⁂ upside down.
5. Diagonal right-pointing swastika, similar in orientation and rotation to the thick grotesque type-style form used by Nazi Germany.[2] Removed by KB833407.
6. Resembles 〽 but with only one peak.
7. Unicode U+0FD5 (as a religious symbol) or U+5350 (as a kanji).[2] Possibly intended as a symbol for a Buddhist temple[3] (especially given that it follows the ⛩ (torii) for a Shinto shrine), but the usual map symbol is the left-pointing 卍 (U+0FD6 or U+534D).[3] Removed by KB833407.
8. IDS ⿳艹犬廾
9. IDS ⿰虫⿱廿内 (i.e. resembles 蜗 but with 廿 and not 口). It may be U+8739 蜹.

References

1. "MS tears swastika from roof of Office". Retrieved 2018-02-11.
2. Everson, Michael; Fynn, Christopher; Scharf, Peter; West, Andrew (2007-05-09). "N3268 L2/07-148: Proposal to encode four religious characters in the Tibetan block" (PDF).
3. Walkenbach, John (2004-12-13). "More Swastika Stuff". J-Walk Blog. Archived from the original on 2004-12-25. Retrieved 2018-09-01.

External links

• Description of the Bookshelf Symbol 7 Font Removal Tool in Office 2003
• An Open Letter from Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky
• The first 113 symbols.
• The Handbook Archived 4 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine