Thanks for verifying this. It looks like Amazon introduced code2000 and the CJK fonts with the K3 models.
I.e., K1, K2 and DX owners won't be able to read Russian or CJK books without font hacks.
At least the latest iOS, Android and Kindle for PC apps apparently support Russian and CJK without embedded fonts.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
OBVIOUSLY, Amazon supports Cyrillic or (insert language here), because they SEE THEM on the damn website!
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Actually, Russian owners of 5.6.x firmware Kindles have one advantage over readers in other countries. They get automatic hyphenation for Amazon-bought
and side-loaded KF8 books.
I guess Lab126 must have at least one Russian-speaking guy on their team who enabled hyphenation for Russian Kindle books.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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I really don't envy you. IMHO, it'd be best if Amazon introduced a special metadata entry that marks a book as a KF8-only edition.