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Old 08-22-2022, 01:15 PM   #87
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YES. OMG, I wish, wish wish that old-mobi were truly dead. I just tried to do a book with English-Hebrew and...oy vey. Now, to be fair, KF8 and all that worked pretty well, even going hog-wild and mixing RTL and LTR on the same line (yes, really!) but iBooks, aDE, etc. choked on it and I knew it would NEVAH work in KF7, KCR, the LIT and all that. (sigh). So, it's back to wee bitty images of Hebrew, embedded in lines of English (more sighing).
It's crazy, because RTL, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic all solved issues even in DOS in 1980s.
By 1997, TEN YEARS before the 1st Amazon Kindle, EVERY common writing system working on Linux, which is what Kindle used. 2002 I switched email client because it was essentially 1979 internal format, to one that supported almost any language.

Amazon was behind, always.
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