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Old 02-12-2007, 09:57 AM   #126
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Originally Posted by Slowhand
I guess porkupan is worried about expectations of a non English reading folk. No doubt Multilanguage support and better pdf handling is of priority and I believe they will do it eventually. As for the clock issue, it’s funny to read about 3 full screens loaded with that stuff. They might be, or they might not..
Exactly. This device has been quite a hit in Europe, not only in the U.S., where it is officially sold. And a lot of people used the update feature to load the firmware with their own fonts. Now it seems that Sony somehow (perhaps inadvertently) closed this door. Why?

I read mostly in Russian, and I can no longer update the firmware with Cyrillic-enabled fonts. Right, there is PDF (if you want to wait 3 to 10 seconds for each page turn), and there is LRF with embedded fonts (also a bit sluggish). But what about the rest? RTF, TXT, simple LRF? Book and author names in Cyrillic?

What exactly did I get in exchange for updating to the new firmware?
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