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Old 09-25-2011, 08:43 PM   #636
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an expensive book with lots of unwanted "?" is just too obviously defective to be acceptable.
Of course it isn't, which is why it's extremely rare to see that happen. Publishers (or, rather, the conversion houses they use) have been routinely embedding fonts for a couple of years now - it's standard practice. The real gripe is that they universally use Charis rather than picking (and licensing) a font that's appropriate for the work (as they would when laying out a hardback).

If you come across a retail ePub that fails to display non-West European characters then you should complain loudly to the publisher.
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