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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
@tomsem: For arabic to work correctly on a Kindle you need KF8. Not sure if it requires ligatures to be hardcoded or not.
Only because a fontfile has kerning information and ligatures included doesn't mean the renderer that displays your text understands that.
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Right, KF8 is required for Arabic, not just for ligatures but for RTL display.
I'm just pointing out that the PW1 (and pre-'typography' update) renderer is capable of composing ligatures, but for whatever reason, does not (and apparently will never) compose them for English on that device. 'Crippled' font files is consistent with that behavior, but I am not claiming that is the only possible mechanism. In any case, it is kind of spooky behavior when compared to modern ePub renderers, which do this in their sleep.
Are there ebooks available here in mobi format that use embedded fonts? I'd like to do some experiments...