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Old 12-01-2022, 05:28 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
I don’t think that MOBI supports Japanese.
The old mobi/azw/KF7 only supports a subset of Greek in addition to Latin-Roman. Lack of fonts on the ereaders is one issue.
No Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Japanese (or any Asian).
No Cyrllic, Hebrew or Arabic.
The fonts installed do support Icelandic, Spanish, French, German etc extra letters not used in English.

It was really very bad of Amazon to release such a limited GUI/Language support in 2007. The underlying OS supported it over 10 years earlier. They seem to just bolt the Mobipocket stuff they bought in 2005 on top of Linux. It was very limited as it had originally supported Palm OS, Symbian, Windows CE and maybe DOS and very limited.
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