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Originally Posted by paulpeer
If you want other characters than these to display in ADR, you will have to embed the required fonts into the ePub book. This is feasible, but I don't think my grandma, who just received her reader, will succeed in doing this...
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Thanks for the explanations - it's clearer now. I thought that there might be some sort of issue with the fonts needed to be embedded or internalised in some way in the original document, but I have no knowledge of how that works in practice. I always enjoy trying to learn new stuff though.
Changing to any of the 16 supported options on the iRiver is a fairly straightforward matter of pressing the menu button and selecting Settings and then Language. But it sounds like you're saying that it still probably won't read a regular ebook in another language, using the epub format, unless it also has all the necessary characters sets already embedded. Is this a rarity with such documents? Do the publishers of non-English ebooks just assume that you are using a PC or a specialist ereader?
Incidentally, the iRiver story was available in Korea well before it came to English speaking countries, and Korean is the first language on the menu list. It also came with PDF format instruction manuals installed, in a range of languages, so I'd assumed that its handling of those languages should be reasonably well implemented. But maybe it doesn't go as deep as I thought?