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Originally Posted by sebasdoes
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Is there a possibility to add support for Japanese fonts to the PRS-600? The person at this page http://pc-parts.cocolog-nifty.com/bl...6002-bc2d.html has done it as well, but it would be great if it was integrated into this project. I would like to see Japanese when browsing for books and be able to put Japanese text files (so no PDF) on the e-reader without seeing gibberish. This can be UTF-8, or SJIS, or whatever. I don't mind. If you need anything translated, you can contact me on sebastiaan@akiha.something.nl, but then without the something in it. Use akiha.nl after the at mark.
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Anyway, I saw this part about adding fonts in the Install Guide, would that do what I wanted? |
Yes and No.
YES, adding a Unicode font with Japanese character support should let you read Japanese EPUBs as long as their encoding is fully unicode compliant, and as long as we are talking about standard left-to-right horizontal style (hidari yokogaki 左横書き , not vertical right-to-left cursive style).
But sadly, no, just adding a custom font alone will not 'localize' your PRS-600, and change the menu text etc. to Japanese.
Localizing for Japanese is tricky because not only would the menu resource files need to be translated manually into Japanese, but we would also need to change ALL the system fonts (not just the EPUB CSS fonts) to ones that supports Japanese Unicode.
In the mean time, until this is available, why don't you simply embed a Japanese Unicode font right into your EPUB?
Embedding fonts inside the EPUB, and calling them out in the EPUB's CSS is actually fairly simple, and in a way this is even better.
Better, because embedding the font into the EPUB itself insures that this EPUB will not only work on your Sony, but will also work on ALL Sony's and also render correctly on other systems that do not have Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji fonts available.