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Originally Posted by Nate the great
From the press release:
It's great that Amazon is expanding the number of supported languages, but only until you realize that Amazon will never be able to support most of the languages in use; the Mobipocket format cannot display text in any direction other than left-to-right. Would you like to use Arabic? Sorry, that reads right to left. Japanese? Sorry, that's written vertically.
And the Kindle has less than complete support for Unicode (which is rather odd, because no other device based on the Mobipocket format has that problem). So if you want to display a language in anything other than Latin based characters (Western European languages, basically), you're out of luck. |
Get a grip. So what you're saying is that because the Universe of languages can't be accommodated, none should? Maybe it's little steps at a time. Or maybe that's just the way it goes as a business decision. Now there is an opportunity for YOU to invent the "correct" eReader for the masses.