International Support

Creation and display of US English content is fully tested on LitGen.dll, and on Microsoft Reader. Even though creation and display of international content has not been fully tested, content producers are also encouraged to create .lit files in languages other than US English.

Note: Currently Microsoft Reader does not correctly display .lit files involving Asian, and BIDI characters, however, if you use the <font> tag or the CSS “font-family” property in your content source markup to select another font that contains other glyphs, those glyphs may work.

Both LitGen.dll and Microsoft Reader are Unicode applications. This means that for creation of .lit files, text must be sent to LitGen.dll using UCS2 strings.

The initial release of Litgen.dll supports authoring in any language that can be expressed in Unicode. However the supporting engines in Reader, such as hyphenation, stemming, and dictionary engines, are planned for a future release.

For more information about supported fonts, see Font and Character Set Support.

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