[elizilla]

So I have read any number of threads here that describe how to change your fonts. And being a fiddling geek sort of person, I experimented with it.

I copied fonts to a /font directory on my reader. I exploded an epub in Calibre, and inserted pointers to the font files into stylesheet.css. I rebuilt the epubs. I deleted the book from my device and reloaded the new version. I have done this over and over again trying different fonts and different paths, and nothing ever changes.

According to the other threads, you have to point to the font file in this directory:
res:///Data/fonts/

Since that doesn't work, and I have no reason to think I need that "Data" in the path other than what people said here, I also tried:
res:///fonts/

Since apparently some fonts work and some don't, I tried a dozen different fonts including fonts that were linked to by people who claim that they worked. No luck.

Finally, since I didn't really have any complaints about the canned font that comes with the device, I gave up. It's not that important, and I love my reader regardless of whether I can change fonts, and I'd rather read than bang my head on the wall.

But now I am reading a book, 1635:The Eastern Front by Eric Flint. They're invading Poland, and there are all these place names that my reader is rendering badly. For example, "Świebodzin" is rendering as "?wiebodzin"

I'm thinking that if I can just get the darn font thing working right, and choose a unicode font, it should be able to render these place names correctly. So I've pulled all this font stuff out to mess with it again. To no avail. I still cannot change the fonts.

What am I missing here?