Thread: Older Kindles losing store access in August
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Old 08-22-2022, 01:29 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
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.
Well, Hebrew in and of itself, or Arabic, etc.--they work fine. It's combining them on the same line that seems to make ADE and iBooks both barf. To be fair, I should note that my Fire handled it just fine. So...

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