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Old 12-11-2007, 10:09 PM   #10
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Device: Sony Reader
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Originally Posted by Jabberwock View Post
By the way, it is hard to believe that in the 21st century they have designed a device without Unicode support. This is a real showstopper in multilanguage texts - for example in a Polish book with Spanish or French quotes the characters are badly messed up...
I just want to correct this statement. In fact, the Sony Reader does have Unicode support, it just doesn't have full Unicode fonts. If you have a 500, you can install the "Cyrillic" fonts, and they do have the full Eastern European sets in them, I believe (not positive, but almost).

Whether you wish to bother with installing updates to your device for native fonts support, or you prefer to read books with embedded fonts (which usually page much slower) is totally up to you, of course.
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