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charleski · 10-13-2010, 01:42 PM

For reference:
The limited set of default glyphs available in ADE is defined in Appendices D.1 and D.3 of the PDF Reference, 5th Edition.
iBooks has a far wider range of characters available in its built-in fonts, though there are significant holes in its support of Cyrillic as well as a variety of other scripts. AFAIK Apple hasn't deigned to release a proper specification of the supported characters, but from reports earlier this year it has good coverage of Latin Extended-A and -B, as well as Latin Extended Additional, which should cover your needs for this text without having to use alternate spellings.

So in this case you should be safe relying on iBooks' built-in coverage and embedding a full unicode font to cover ADE and other properly compliant ereaders (iBooks will simply ignore the embedded font). Be sure that you're using fully-formed characters and not combining diacritics.

10-13-2010, 01:42 PM	#10
charleski Wizard Posts: 1,196 Karma: 1281258 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505	For reference: The limited set of default glyphs available in ADE is defined in Appendices D.1 and D.3 of the PDF Reference, 5th Edition. iBooks has a far wider range of characters available in its built-in fonts, though there are significant holes in its support of Cyrillic as well as a variety of other scripts. AFAIK Apple hasn't deigned to release a proper specification of the supported characters, but from reports earlier this year it has good coverage of Latin Extended-A and -B, as well as Latin Extended Additional, which should cover your needs for this text without having to use alternate spellings. So in this case you should be safe relying on iBooks' built-in coverage and embedding a full unicode font to cover ADE and other properly compliant ereaders (iBooks will simply ignore the embedded font). Be sure that you're using fully-formed characters and not combining diacritics.