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alxab · 07-31-2009, 10:13 AM

What I really like about this gadget is the form factor, folder system and screen readability. Would be my favorite toy if not for one serious problem (for me, at least). I read mostly Russian texts in fb2 format. There are lots of them on the Net. Most are encoded in the older Win 1251 charset while about 1/3 of them use the current industry standard: Unicode (UTF-8). The trouble is JetBook does not support Unicode! You load a bunch of book in the reader only to see a screenful of garbage for many of them.

Does anyone know if the new firmware version adds Unicode support?

07-31-2009, 10:13 AM	#37
alxab Member Posts: 13 Karma: 48 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boston, USA Device: JetBook	What I really like about this gadget is the form factor, folder system and screen readability. Would be my favorite toy if not for one serious problem (for me, at least). I read mostly Russian texts in fb2 format. There are lots of them on the Net. Most are encoded in the older Win 1251 charset while about 1/3 of them use the current industry standard: Unicode (UTF-8). The trouble is JetBook does not support Unicode! You load a bunch of book in the reader only to see a screenful of garbage for many of them. Does anyone know if the new firmware version adds Unicode support?