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Originally Posted by raac
There is no question that e-books contain errors not present in the original. Here is a excerpt of an e-mail I sent to Penguin today.
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Fourthly, there seems to be some problem with the font embedding because on my Sony PRS-950 some character are rendered as question marks. This occurs for all the symbols separating terms in the chapter summary lists, and for some characters which have accents.
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Check to see if your Sony PRS-950 supports Unicode. If not, you'll get those character issues. The only way to fix them on a device that has no Unicode support is to edit the source to replace Unicode characters with their ASCII or Windows-1251 equivalents - if the book and your device are English.
Another possibility on non-Unicode devices is for the reader software to provide its own support for it, but that's something I've yet to see in action.
Most devices, like Palm OS PDAs and phones, without native Unicode support are never going to get a software update to add it.
Here I reiterate my pitch for the OUR or One Ultimate Reader app. Cross platform for iOS, Palm, WebOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Symbian etc. and able to open Mobi/Kindle, ePub, Rocket, TealDoc, PalmDoc, Plucker and more - while providing its own Unicode support for platforms that don't have it.
Just needs some coders who really love to read and are fed up with the multitude of e-book formats and having to run multiple apps to read them.
