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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The bug in 2.3.1 that causes the reader to switch to a tiny font at the start of the chapter seems to be fixed in 2.3.2. I think this is the worst of the 2.3.1 bugs as far as impact on reading enjoyment goes, and it seems a bit unfair that everyone gets the bug but only Japan gets the fix.
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But that is a relatively easy fix -- change font or change font size. What I was thinking of are cases where an attempt to display Japanese characters results in a scrambled display due to mismatch between what the computer thinks is the character encoding and what was actually used by the document. This type of issue would not show with European language ebooks since they have a relatively simple and well-defined character to code transformations. An issue with the top to bottom/right to left character display mode would also not affect European languages but that is the traditional mode for Japanese writing.
In theory, Unicode should solve the character display issue but from what I've read, that is not yet the case. As for handling the tb-rl directive, I've seen inconsistent results when I attempted to display sample EPUB 3 Japanese ebooks (sample-tate.epub and sample-yoko.epub). I haven't checked with 2.3.2 to see if it made any difference in the rendering of the -tate version.
Regards,
David