Thread: Troubleshooting K3 chinese font support spotty?
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Old 01-07-2011, 01:40 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Kanru View Post
You can convert it to a opf directory structure first using `ebook-convert <textfile> <dir>' then modify the opf file.

Calibre also set the tag depends on your GUI language preference. It seems the GUI language preference may override whatever you put inside the opf file, but I did generate a correct mobi file then.

NOTE: Although I said the myth is busted but some user still reports that the square font issue seems random and still occur. I don't have a kindle3 so cant really confirm this fix works.
I did some testing last night. I used Mobi Creator Publisher edition. I filled in all the related metadata, language, locale, etc. Still, after I transfer the books to Kindle, I still see squares, :-(

It seems the
Code:
;debugOn
~changeLocale zh-cn
;debugOff
is the only valid way to make Kindle 3 display Chinese properly, regardless of the locale settings of the mobi file itself. I even tried use HEX editor to change the 0x0009 to 0x0804, didn't help.

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