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Originally Posted by Kivgaen
I think what he's saying is that all of the readers out there that we care about (sony, iPad, kindle, etc.) have a font that can render the spade, heart, club and diamond symbols (or trademark, copyright, etc.). So we're pretty safe there -- most of them already have a default font native to the device that will display these characters. And their "font substitution" algorithm actually works properly 
So for the time being, we don't lose anything by not embedding the fonts. |
This is quite probably true, and I was just about to say something similar. If you're only looking for those four symbols, then you don't really have to worry. ADE and iPad support it. That there is like 95% of the epub market.
There's purity and there's getting the job done. Normally, I'd still embed the font, but seeing as how Apple will fail your file if you do (something I didn't previously know), the last remaining option is clear.