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Old 01-31-2011, 08:07 AM   #148
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Most current devices are perfectly capable of showing a wide range of Unicode characters, there's no need to "downgrade" to some limited 8-bit encoding. If some characters are not properly displayed it's because the device is lacking a good font (and the possibility of using a custom one). Should ebooks be created with typos just so they show sort-of-OK in defective devices? I don't think so. What if next month a software upgrade fixes the devices? Now suddenly all those books would be of reduced quality for no reason (and don't hope a "corrected" version of every book will be released).
The book I'm currently proof-reading, John Buchan's "The Courts of the Morning", is about a revolution in a fictional South American country. Unfortunately, the eBook source is an ASCII version, so a lot of the work of proof-reading consists of restoring the accents to all the Spanish words that should have them.
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