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Old 05-23-2010, 09:47 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Sadhu View Post
So, okay, if it's not embedding, and Tahoma is not on your list, how is the iBook showing these extended characters.
The iPad (and, more generally, Mac OS X) will substitute any available font to fill in missing characters. My guess is while the iPad doesn't have Tahoma, it does have a font with those characters and is showing that instead.

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To my knowledge these extended characters show up differently using fonts other than Tahoma.
They probably do. Have you compared the iPad's display with how that same text looks in Tahoma?
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