Editing Wingdings (section)

==Controversy==
{{see also|Bookshelf Symbol 7}}
[[Image:Wingdings NYC.svg|thumb|150px|"NYC" in Wingdings]]
In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that "NYC" ([[New York City]]) in Wingdings was rendered as a [[Skull and crossbones (symbol)#Symbol for poison|skull and crossbones]] symbol, [[Star of David]], and [[thumb signal|thumbs up]] gesture. This was often said to be an [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] message referencing New York's [[Jews in New York City|large Jewish community]].<ref name="Snopes">{{Cite web|url = http://www.snopes.com/rumors/wingdings.asp|title = Does Microsoft's Wingdings font includes hidden anti-Semitic and 9/11-referential messages?|date = 11 December 2005|access-date = 23 October 2014|website = Snopes.com}}</ref> Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. "NYC" in the later-released [[Webdings]] font was intentionally rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, referring to the [[I Love New York]] logo.<ref name="wingdings">{{cite news| last=Glasner |first=Joanna |date=2001-09-22 |title=MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again |url=http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/09/47042 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140501070552/http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/09/47042 |archive-date=2014-05-01}}</ref>

[[File:Wingdings 911.JPG|thumb|150px|"Q33 NY" in Wingdings]]

After [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]], an email was circulated claiming that "Q33 NY", which it claims is the flight number of the first plane to hit the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|Twin Towers]], in Wingdings would bring up a character sequence of a plane flying eastwards, followed by two rectangular paper sheet icons which may be interpreted as skyscrapers, followed by the skull and crossbones symbol and the Star of David.<ref name="Snopes" /> This is a [[hoax]]; the flight numbers of the airplanes that hit the towers were [[American Airlines Flight 11|AA11]] and [[United Airlines Flight 175|UA175]]; the tail numbers were N334AA and N612UA.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Christensen |first1=Brett M. |title=Q33 NY Wingdings Hoax – Elevens and the Wrath of the Eagle |url=https://www.hoax-slayer.net/q33-ny-wingdings-hoax-elevens-and-the-wrath-of-the-eagle/ |website=Hoax-Slayer |access-date=27 August 2018 |date=9 February 2017 |archive-date=1 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701202434/https://www.hoax-slayer.net/q33-ny-wingdings-hoax-elevens-and-the-wrath-of-the-eagle/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>