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baggins · 12-31-2012, 03:03 AM

Hi NooN

I've been waiting for Kobo to add RTL support for a long time now. They still don't have it.
You can easily add a font with Arabic characters to the device, however, if you try to display an epub in Arabic, but it will be displayed from left to right instead of from right to left.

PDFs should be fine, but as pointed before me, you won't be able to zoom the characters, and will have to format the PDFs for small paper size, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable to read.

I haven't tried it yet, but html should probably work fine. I know web pages in Arabic are displayed correctly in the browser, so an html file should probably be displayed correctly as well.

12-31-2012, 03:03 AM	#26
baggins Member Posts: 22 Karma: 5174 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo	Hi NooN I've been waiting for Kobo to add RTL support for a long time now. They still don't have it. You can easily add a font with Arabic characters to the device, however, if you try to display an epub in Arabic, but it will be displayed from left to right instead of from right to left. PDFs should be fine, but as pointed before me, you won't be able to zoom the characters, and will have to format the PDFs for small paper size, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable to read. I haven't tried it yet, but html should probably work fine. I know web pages in Arabic are displayed correctly in the browser, so an html file should probably be displayed correctly as well.