Cyrillic in Kindle

alided · 06-24-2008, 11:39 AM

Hi,
I read through the forums, but was unable 100% to tell whether kindle supports cyrillic or not. I have bunch of txt files in russian which i want to read on kindle(still didn't buy it). Is it possible to do ? What will be the process ?

Thanks

igorsk · 06-24-2008, 12:08 PM

Nope, no Cyrillic. Better get Sony or Cybook.

alided · 06-28-2008, 01:30 PM

Thanks Igor. Yep ordered Sony.

lovebeta · 06-28-2008, 06:03 PM

That is the saddest thing about Kindle for me. Can any, I beg any, of the tech genius to make it happen?

I have the Sony just for the sake of reading non-latin works...

rdhoore108 · 11-20-2010, 10:44 AM

I have both the Kindle 2 (my wife's) and 3 (mine).

The Kindle 3 shows Cyrillic just fine. The Kindle 2 doesn't

Why Amazon doesn't fix the Kindle 2 so it can too, is beyond me. A simple firmware update should be able to fix it.

If their consideration is just the money, well, they might get a few Kindle 2 owners to uprgrade to a Kindle 3, but they will lose many more potential customers simply by the rumors that Kindle can't display cyrillics...

Apparently there is a font hack, I will try it now...

UPDATE: I used this post instead, it worked very nicely. Our Kindle2 now displays Cyrillic fine, both in the book list and in the books themselves.

tomsem · 11-20-2010, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alided

Hi,
I read through the forums, but was unable 100% to tell whether kindle supports cyrillic or not. I have bunch of txt files in russian which i want to read on kindle(still didn't buy it). Is it possible to do ? What will be the process ?

Thanks

K3 supports Cyrillic, and is the first Kindle model that does so. All of the Kindle applications (Win, Mac, iOS at least) also support it.

There's a font hack for K2/DX to add Cyrillic support.

06-24-2008, 11:39 AM	#1
alided Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: No device yet	Cyrillic in Kindle Hi, I read through the forums, but was unable 100% to tell whether kindle supports cyrillic or not. I have bunch of txt files in russian which i want to read on kindle(still didn't buy it). Is it possible to do ? What will be the process ? Thanks

11-20-2010, 10:44 AM	#5
rdhoore108 Ronny D'Hoore Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Belgium Device: Kindle 2, Kindle 3 wifi	I have both the Kindle 2 (my wife's) and 3 (mine). The Kindle 3 shows Cyrillic just fine. The Kindle 2 doesn't Why Amazon doesn't fix the Kindle 2 so it can too, is beyond me. A simple firmware update should be able to fix it. If their consideration is just the money, well, they might get a few Kindle 2 owners to uprgrade to a Kindle 3, but they will lose many more potential customers simply by the rumors that Kindle can't display cyrillics... Apparently there is a font hack, I will try it now... UPDATE: I used this post instead, it worked very nicely. Our Kindle2 now displays Cyrillic fine, both in the book list and in the books themselves. Last edited by rdhoore108; 11-21-2010 at 03:22 PM.

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igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	Nope, no Cyrillic. Better get Sony or Cybook.

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