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Old 04-07-2008, 07:45 PM   #28
jimad
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Re: What Glyphs Kindle supports or not

What Glyphs Kindle supports or not is not a "mistake" it is a design decision. Now we may disagree with Amazon about their design decisions -- I would have been much happier if Kindle also had at least support for Greek and Hebrew. Re the test file you can find it at freekindlebooks.org under "Unicode" and if you open it in a recent version of Windows using Mobipocker Reader you will find that Windows implements virtually all the 60,000 or so Unicode Glyphs. So the fact that Kindle only implements about 250 of these is a Kindle design decision. Actually, I take back what I said before about this not being "a mistake". Kindle actually implements a bunch of the high latin Glyphs which are suppose to have diacriticals or marks by leaving off those diacriticals and marks. Now THAT *IS* a mistake! You can choose to implement or not implement a Glyph, but implementing it *incorrectly* -- now that is a very bad idea!
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