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lamaer · 12-05-2010, 02:10 AM

Hi all,

I just got my PB360 about a month ago, pretty happy with it so far. Had some initial problems with Overdrive ebooks, which seem to be mostly solved with the 15.3b firmware upgrade. The problem now is that I can't read Chinese on the device.

Following the instructions on the PB websites as well as in the MR forums, I've tried dropping different chinese fonts (both simplified and traditional ttfs) into the system/fonts folder, and I've tried reading different file formats (prc, epub, txt, html) but nothing seems to work. The roman letters read fine but the Chinese characters just show up as the dreaded rectangles. Is there a specific font that I need to use?

I'm running firmware 15.3b from http://pocketbook-global.com/downloa...60_ru_15_3.zip. I don't think I've made any other major tweaks. I didn't try reading Chinese before upgrading the firmware, so I don't know if it worked on the original settings.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

12-05-2010, 02:10 AM	#1
lamaer Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	Reading Chinese on PB360 Hi all, I just got my PB360 about a month ago, pretty happy with it so far. Had some initial problems with Overdrive ebooks, which seem to be mostly solved with the 15.3b firmware upgrade. The problem now is that I can't read Chinese on the device. Following the instructions on the PB websites as well as in the MR forums, I've tried dropping different chinese fonts (both simplified and traditional ttfs) into the system/fonts folder, and I've tried reading different file formats (prc, epub, txt, html) but nothing seems to work. The roman letters read fine but the Chinese characters just show up as the dreaded rectangles. Is there a specific font that I need to use? I'm running firmware 15.3b from http://pocketbook-global.com/downloa...60_ru_15_3.zip. I don't think I've made any other major tweaks. I didn't try reading Chinese before upgrading the firmware, so I don't know if it worked on the original settings. Any advice would be much appreciated!