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Originally Posted by Karellen
Wouldn't it be better to display the characters from an embedded arabic font file?
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Yes, but:
1) Some (many?) apps ignore embedded fonts.
2) Most dedicated ereaders require the user to pick the Publisher option. The chosen built in font may not have the characters.
It's less of a problem if the entire ebook is Arabic, Chinese, or Asian, Cyrillic etc, as the user won't buy it unless they know how to read it.
There is no "works for everyone" or "works on all ereaders" solution for an ebook mainly in "script x" which has a few words in "script y", where "script" is a particular writing system.
All that is true even if we ignore mobi and only consider epub, or even epub, azw3/KF8 and KFX.
Electronic systems have less support for non-Roman-Latin than other systems. Some won't even take accented words (Irish Health system, and an accent changes meaning!). Systems that cope with two unrelated script systems at the same time are rarer than ones that cope with a particular non-Katin-Roman system.