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Originally Posted by DNSB
More that the book has glyphs that are not supported by the current font.
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Yes.
The UI language is is irrelevant as is the book language. It mostly works, so it's just a poor font for that language.
You can get a similar result with a Greek book if you use the wrong era of Greek font (diacritics?), or some Roman-Latin fonts that only have a subset of Greek letters, or not having the 3rd form of some letters that's used in the text.
In theory old or modern Irish could be using just the standard letters with áéíóú and ÁÉÍÓÚ, but sometimes some ejit might use the Turkish (and other Asian languages) dot-less i, ı, because in Irish that was always used for i to distinguish from í. Today doted consonants are written using the regular one followed by h, i.e. Bhí sé was originally Ḃí sé. Some fonts might not have dotted ḃ, ċ, ḋ, ḟ, ġ, ṁ, ṗ, ṡ, ṫ now written as bh, ch, dh, fh, gh, mh, ph, sh, th. Additionally even modern Irish uses Tironian et (⁊) instead of & and not all fonts have it. Old Irish might use a Gaelic type faceface (font) with old forms of letters using a different unicode so current forms are also included.
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Gaelic typefaces also often include insular forms: ⟨ꞃ ꞅ⟩ of the letters ⟨r⟩ and ⟨s⟩, and some of the typefaces contain a number of ligatures used in earlier Gaelic typography and deriving from the manuscript tradition. Lower-case ⟨i⟩ is drawn without a dot (though it is not the Turkish dotless ⟨ı⟩), and the letters ⟨d f g t⟩ have insular shapes ⟨ꝺ ꝼ ᵹ ꞇ⟩.
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Such documents may display [] or pop-ups if the wrong font is used, which will work for most of the text.
So it's the wrong font is being used.
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