Re:Before the FUD creeps in again: (Score 1)

But what about non-English texts?

I had asked Amazon and they don't support Russian with their existing Kindle 2 product. There is a half-assed workaround - Russian .txt titles can be converted into a .pdf made out off vector-based letter shapes. Naturally, that blows the file size up and requires processing on your PC. More to the point, Chinese texts would need a new conversion app...

So, what's the story with the new product? Can it handle Unicode?