Thread: A silly question: what is the advantage of ePub for a reader?
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Old 08-13-2009, 09:22 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Provided that the appropriate fonts are included in the ePub, it's absolutely fine.
ePub handles right-to-left and OpenType font-based gliph-morphing/replacement (I forget the technical term)?

ePub handles surrogate fonts that allow Chinese characters to be displayed from Extension Plane B? With one exception, that is not licensed for distribution, Extension Plane B support exclusively comes from the use of additional fonts. In other words, characters would have to be explicitly indicated to use one of two fonts, in order to display at all. Oh, and what about vertical writing?

Indian languages, as Arabic, have morphing/changing characters whose logic can be embedded right into the OTF font.

All of these things work?

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