Kindle UTF (International Fonts) Support

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Tallent on December 29, 2008 at 11:13pm

The Kindle only supports the ASCII and upper-ASCII range of characters (decimal values 255 and below). It does not support anything else in Unicode currently due to the font that was chosen as the default display font for the device.

All the best!
Joshua Tallent
http://kindleformatting.com

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Permalink Reply by bsoma on December 30, 2008 at 9:21am

Thank you!

Appreciate the information

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Tallent on February 16, 2009 at 9:26pm

The recent update to the Kindle firmware (version1.2) now allows Greek text. I wrote a blog post about that change on my website:

http://kindleformatting.com/blog/2009/02/greek-text-on-kindle.php

- Joshua

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Permalink Reply by Martiedawn on January 4, 2009 at 9:15pm

I don't think it supports asain languages since I ordered a scholarly critique of a Buddhist sutra. i believe the languages it was in were tibetan sanskrit and pali. It was really annoying.

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Permalink Reply by bsoma on February 17, 2009 at 12:53pm

That looks like a good step in the right direction ;-)

I will keep my fingers crossed and hope to see some books in Indian Languages

Thank you for the update.

Regards,
Soma

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