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Old 11-22-2011, 08:54 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by seabee View Post
The only real problem is that if some of your EPUBs require a specific font for special characters (not available in west-european charsets) and are embedding this font, changing the font-familly will make them unreadable.
Is that really how it is supposed to work, or do epub readers use fallback fonts when the Unicode chars required don't exist in the specified fonts?

Modern web browsers seem to use the fallback technique, and since epub readers are basically HTML rendering engines I'd be surprised if they worked radically differently.
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