Thread: Improvements of international language support
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Old 06-10-2011, 01:43 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
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.
Well, you are wrong. iBooks supports RTL languages and there are other reading systems that support it such as Stanza, Overdrive Media Console, PocketBook readers, Calibre, Azardi, EPUBReader and others.
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