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Originally Posted by charleski
It's good that Japanese publishers are looking to harmonise their fractured infrastructure. It's bad that their hubris dictates that they reinvent the wheel and waste their energies on cobbling together yet another incompatible format to inflict upon the world. Sharp's IEC process is little more than a landgrab that's too little and too late.
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They aren't cobbling together anything, the format has been around for years.
Does what you are saying apply just as much to Amazon rolling out its format to other countries? It is a format that is very widely used in its home country, but not outside.
The hubris seems to be in people assuming that anything invented elsewhere, and that they haven't heard of, must be new and unnecessary.
The current western formats do not support the text-layout issues that occur with the Japanese language, so Japanese developers (many years ago) developed formats that did.