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Old 11-26-2010, 11:08 AM   #30
Chubulor
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Originally Posted by jsfiller View Post
This is an important issue for me as well, as in my discipline, I deal with Greek texts to a large extent, and I've dealt with support on this to quite an extent. But I must admit, I haven't purchased my EE yet (which I plan to do in the near future). What I have found, with other readers and PDFs in general, is that Epub cannot handle Greek characters. For whatever reason, I've never found an Epub document that displays Greek correctly. Amazon is far ahead here, because I have never found a kindle book that didn't display the Greek correctly. Sometimes their free PDFs from Google books, etc. don't display properly, but if it's in the Kindle format, it will display correctly. As for PDFs, it depends on the PDF. Not being technically inclined, I can't explain why some PDFs display correctly and others don't. It has something to do with whether the PDF is an image or text. An image displays Greek properly and text does not. However, an image has other drawbacks.
I've had the same experience with Google Books. I downloaded Florian Cajori's "History of Mathematics" as a PDF a few months ago for free, and to my dismay every single mathematical symbol and every equation or inequality had been rendered into garbage characters. So if I was interested in Johann Bernoulli's childhood pet, I had no trouble finding that information, but the description of his mathematical work was illegible. I think it has to do with the OCR used by the person who originally scanned the work...Google doesn't scan most of those books themselves, so it's possible that some of them are scanned in a way that preserves non-Roman symbols.