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Originally Posted by janvanmaar
but frankly, keeping and reading books in old Windows-1250 encoding just sounds awkward to me, you will probably have to convert to UTF at some point anyway since that is the current standard
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Sure, you're right. I personally have converted all my books to Unicode too. With Calibre it took about twenty hours or less. But because the history of e-books reading in the Czech Republic (on old Palm OS devices) there are tons of Czech books in pdb at Windows-1250 which is the Microsoft's standard for Czech documents till today. And FBReader on Kindle does support both. I'm sure that the the possibility to read plain pdb files with correct Czech could be one of the main reason for "old readers" to change their Palms or mobile phones to Kindle.