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madocyw

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Non-Latin Character based language support
Posted: Mar 13, 2009 11:20 AM
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I am in the process of beta testing a Chinese classical text for release, and discovered that the only font set supported by the Kindle reader is the ISO 8859-1 character set, as well as Greek.

I was hoping to be able to offer something useable for people studying Classical Chinese texts who didn't want to lug around what tend to be bulky inclusive translations.

I just want to say, it would be quite helpful to have the ability to publish in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.

How hard would that be?

madocyw

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Re: Non-Latin Character based language support
Posted: Mar 28, 2009 4:21 PM   in response to: madocyw
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Bump.

How many programmers would it take to do this? Come on already, Chinese is spoken and read by at least a billion and a half people.

I saw plenty of Chinese character support in pocket translators. How difficult would it be to support a specific font set?

yes, the Kindle reader is specific to the U.S. market right now.

madocyw

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Re: Non-Latin Character based language support
Posted: Apr 2, 2009 11:34 AM   in response to: madocyw
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Bump.

Still waiting. Chinese Character support. Chinese Character Support.

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