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Originally Posted by Jellby
I wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle doesn't support right-to-left text, in fact, as far as I know, the Mobipocket format doesn't.
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I was afraid you'd say that. It's a pity that they're excluding a huge potential marked by not providing RTL support. Too me that's a real bummer. I found a nice free Arabic-English word list that I thought about converting to the MOBI format, because so far the Kindle apps are the only apps that offer integrated dictionary lookups. But without a way of easily converting Arabic etexts to MOBI files it's pretty much pointless.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Last time I checked, ADE didn't support it either, where did you try the ePUB?
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You're right again. I only tested my ePUB with the Firefox ePUB Reader plug-in, which displays it exactly as it should be, but neither ADE nor ADE-based ebook Readers display the Arabic characters, and even if they did, they'd probably have the same problem as the Kindle apps, because I could tell from the length of the individual words, that they also do not support RTL text.
I do hope that RTL support will be added to the next version of ePUB standard and MOBI file spec.
P.S.: Since there's always the possibility that I incorrectly encoded the Arabic text, I attached a .zip file containing the epub and mobi files, the mobi sources and a pdf of what the output should like.