Thread: Kobo Touch and Arabic?
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Old 12-31-2012, 04:46 AM   #30
davidfor
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The Kobo, like most ePub devices, licenses "Adobe Reader Mobile" software to display ePub books. It's the Adobe software itself that doesn't currently support right-to-left languages.
True, but as of firmware 2.0.0, Kobo have a second application for reading "Kobo ePubs" or kepubs. These are basically epubs with a couple of Kobo extensions and a different DRM. They are downloaded from the Kobo server to the device or through a Kobo desktop app. The app is either named "ACCESS" or comes from a company of that name. And I believe this app supports epub3.

You can get a sideloaded epub to be opened by this application by using the double extension ".kepub.epub". I believe this application supports Japanese written vertically. If that is the case, it might support RTL languages. In any case, it won't hurt to try.
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