Why can't I read in other languages?

[Margok]

Hi,everyone ^^ I recently purchased kobo ereader and was pretty satisfied with it(despite the bad pdf,no search and highlighting), but I tried to upload a ebook in other language and it did not read it.
How come?
Is there anything I can do to change that?

I really don't want to return kobo, but it looks like I'd have to(((

Thanks for any advice.

[dreams]

Welcome to MR, Margok.

I don't know anything about the Kobo. Hopefully, a member that owns a Kobo will answer soon.

What languages are you trying to read on your Kobo?

[Margok]

Russian
I'm not mr. though x)

[LCF]

Originally Posted by Margok

Russian
I'm not mr. though x)

Don't worry, you"ll become one. (Just to clarify - MR stands short for MobileRead)

What was the format of the book? I assume you use the original firmware?
Was Kobo unable to open the book, or did you get funny characters?

[Margok]

I still have no idea what's that, sorry XD

I used the adobe digital firmware to upload the book. The format is epub and kobo was able to open the book perfectly, but you're right,I got funny characters. T_T

[lchen]

Might be a font issue?

One feature request I have for the next firmware is the option to support non-English Fonts (ie. Cyrillic, Coptic, Arabic, Greek, Asian font sets).

[JCSullivan]

Originally Posted by Margok

Russian
I'm not mr. though x)

Margok MR is for MobileRead, the forum you're in right now.

[JCSullivan]

Originally Posted by lchen

Might be a font issue?

One feature request I have for the next firmware is the option to support non-English Fonts (ie. Cyrillic, Coptic, Arabic, Greek, Asian font sets).

I knew that one was coming. Is that why they didn't release a Francophone version, or did they.

[LCF]

Originally Posted by Margok

I still have no idea what's that, sorry XD

I used the adobe digital firmware to upload the book. The format is epub and kobo was able to open the book perfectly, but you're right,I got funny characters. T_T

Originally Posted by lchen

Might be a font issue?

One feature request I have for the next firmware is the option to support non-English Fonts (ie. Cyrillic, Coptic, Arabic, Greek, Asian font sets).

Do you have the option to turn the menu in Russian? Might help... Try also to change the default epub font (if there is such) to a cyrillic friendly one.

[Margok]

Originally Posted by LCF

Do you have the option to turn the menu in Russian? Might help... Try also to change the default epub font (if there is such) to a cyrillic friendly one.

There's no such option. -_- That's my first ebook, so I'm really not familiar with all this type of technology, but for some reason I assumed that it doesn't matter in what language ebook is written as long as its format is correct. I guess I was mistaken 'cause my friend reads in spanish on her sony ereader.

About changing the font...I don't quite know how to do that. -_-

Originally Posted by JCSullivan

Margok MR is for MobileRead, the forum you're in right now.

sorry,i was out of it :P
i just randomly found the website and quickly created a topic

[wallcraft]

The Kobo implementation seems to be very bare bones, but any device with mobile Adobe Digital Editions should be able to read Russian ebooks if a Russian capable font is embedded into the ebook. This is the case for both PDF and ePub. See for example How to embed fonts in ePub after Calibre.

One some devices, it is possible to add fonts on the device and reference them in an ePub (so there is one copy per device, rather than one copy of the font in each ePub). We don't know how to do this on the Kobo yet though.

[Semp]

Originally Posted by lchen

Might be a font issue?

One feature request I have for the next firmware is the option to support non-English Fonts (ie. Cyrillic, Coptic, Arabic, Greek, Asian font sets).

Try this file http://www.4shared.com/file/oVBM8XnB/russ_sample.html I'm creating some EPUB files (Russian text and embed font) if this working, external fonts should work too. I’m not Russian I’m Polish I don’t know what this text mean I only copy and past some text.

[Margok]

Originally Posted by Semp

Try this file http://www.4shared.com/file/oVBM8XnB/russ_sample.html I'm creating some EPUB files (Russian text and embed font) if this working, external fonts should work too. I’m not Russian I’m Polish I don’t know what this text mean I only copy and past some text.

Didn't work.( Instead of text only question marks.

[Semp]

Originally Posted by Margok

Didn't work.( Instead of text only question marks.

Hmm on Astak EZReader and Sony readers working perfectly see this picture
http://www.4shared.com/photo/dfn5jAsE/russ_sample.html

[Semp]

Originally Posted by Margok

Didn't work.( Instead of text only question marks.

You have to find address for SD card in Kobo OS
In Sony rider looks like that:
@font-face {
font-family: "DejaVu Serif";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///Data/fonts/DejaVuSerif.ttf);
}
In Jinke - Hanlin v3, Hanlin v5, BeBook , Astak rider looks like that:
@font-face {
font-family: "Verdana";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///abook/fonts/verdana.ttf);
}