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Originally Posted by Billi
qariwa, there is a special firmware 2.05 that supports Arabic:
http://www.pocketbook.de/support/pocketbook-602/
I'm not sure if the newer firmwares include this support, too, because I never had any interest in it, but maybe it is worth downgrading and afterwards upgrading to 2.06. |
Been there, done that. The support is buggy, though I can read epub Arabic files, but is a bit of a pain:
First, I have to remove all font declarations from CSS files. This is getting easier as I develop my own CSS file for Arabic books and documents.
Second, the so-called Arabic fw does have two, probably doctored fonts, Droid Sans MTI Arabic and Droid Sans Fallback MTI Arabic. They kinda work,
but whenever I open a file in fbreader, whether I have it set to one of these fonts or not, there is one particular Arabic letter, the "ya" that does not render properly, and seeing that it is probably the most common letter, this is
really annoying. I always have to go into the fbreader settings and change the font to another one, and then
back to one of those Arabic ones. Sometimes I have to back and forth like 10 times before the change sticks. The result looks fairly decent -- a sans font. It does not matter which of those two Arabic fonts you use because the result is the same. If you switch to anything else, including Arabic fonts I have added myself, you get the same garbage with the "ya".
Third, if there is any vowel marker in the original, this will not appear and it will ruin the way Arabic letters combine. The "stand alone" Arabic letter will appear instead. In Arabic documents, vowel markings are usually not very common (though there are many exceptions), but are included when otherwise there would be an ambiguity. So it is important to be able to render them.
fbreader180 simply does not support Arabic. It does not combine the letters, and has no right-to-left option.
So as I have said, there
is Arabic support, but it is buggy. I tried upgrading from fw 2.0.6 to 2.1.2RC, but I could not do it because I got an error -- something about the partition. Maybe I will try that again and try to fix that problem.