Quote:
Originally Posted by Doitsu
AFAIK, my K3 came with the code2000 font, which includes most CJK characters, Cyrillic characters and even some Conscript characters.
AFAIK, both Caecilia and Helvetica Neue also natively support Russian characters and accented Greek characters.
I.e., even without code2000 older Kindles should at least support Russian and classical Greek.
If you still have a K1 or K2 lying around, you can test the actual font coverage with my simple mobi7 test file. |
Doits:
I will if you insist, but we do Cyrillic books
all the time for a Russian client of ours. I have a K2 right here, and I am 99.9999999% sure that Cyrillic
isn't supported in K, K2, DX. I'm nearly as sure that it's equally unsupported in K4iPad and KCR. Last time I looked, the vast bulk of K3's were KF8, for all intents and purposes, no?
And I'm
always checking this stuff, because one of the really delightful experiences of being a commercial bookmaker is having prospective clients tell you that you're STUPID, because OBVIOUSLY, Amazon supports Cyrillic or (insert language here), because they SEE THEM on the damn website! Doesn't matter how many times you tell them, "yabbut...," you just get to have that special moment, when you're told that you're stupid, illiterate, ill-informed, you name it. (Yes, I'm having one of those mornings RIGHT NOW.) Not as much fun as the guy who told me that I didn't know what I was doing about (something), because he, too, saw it RIGHT THERE in the Look Inside the Book! (For the PRINT EDITION, of course....)
I mean...listen, for all you guys (and the occasional gal) making eBooks for yourselves, or a specific clientele that's going to buy a book from a website, great (like our Russian client). But at the moment, the books we make have to have backwards compatibility. And that means, for anything that's not vanilla, no embedded font support = no book. Especially as I'm not really that enthused about having my knuckles rapped by Amazon for putting out a book that I know doesn't work correctly across their pantheon of devices.
But, hey...I'll bow out of this one.
Hitch