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Originally Posted by Alissa
I believe the tts for multiple languages will be costly, and I don't think it's feasible that Kindle device come with multilanguage tts.
I just want more languages/scripts to be supported as book's primary language. For example, the web browser come with Kindle 3.1 can show Arabic web sites properly, so why not Arabic Kindle ebooks? It should be easy.
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The browser is based on webkit, and so a lot of the script handling comes 'for free'. But even it has limitations.
Meanwhile, Kindle's reading system was designed to work on puny, memory-constrained systems, and employs a very restricted subset of HTML/CSS. It won't be trivial to modify it for complex-script and right-to-left support (to say nothing about asian-language vertical text layout). But let us hope they are hard at work on it.
That said, I don't think any of the other reading systems support these right now, not even webkit-based iBooks. Except of course what you can do with PDF.