04-19-2008, 06:26 AM | #1 |
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best reader for Russian language
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my friend would like to get an eInk reader... he particularly likes my Sony PRS-505. But what if he wants to read stuff in Russian? An embedded font will work, of course, but then the page turns on the Sony take longer and it's not so good. What about on other devices, like the Cybook? Which device will best accommodate both Russian and English fonts? Thanks for your advice. |
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The Cybook allows you to install your own ttf fonts. I also have otf fonts on it that work, even though they are not officially supported.
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I hope this will make you happy : http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7155
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That's fine if you ONLY want to read in Russian (or other languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet), but it's not very practical if you want to read using both the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets. A device like the Gen3 which lets you load your own fonts is (IMHO) a better solution for that.
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04-19-2008, 11:31 AM | #6 |
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If this refers to my post than it's not qute true: you can read English texts without any problems, although the fonts in the image don't have some characters (like umlauts etc), so you probably will have problems with languages like French or German.
Update: always listen to igorsk Last edited by rmaks; 04-19-2008 at 11:34 AM. |
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Actually you can have a font which includes both Cyrillic and extended Latin set (with French, German and whatnot). You'll only need to make sure your Russian TXT files are in Unicode, the rest will work just fine.
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