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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Hi folks,
Newbie questions, so please be patient with me.  I've tried to find answers to these through these threads, but haven't succeeded, so I thought I'd ask.
I'm looking to buy a new ereader, and am considering the Kobo Touch, so I'm info-gathering to try to make an informed decision on things that matter for me. Can anyone please tell me:
1) Do the fonts loaded in the Touch support extended character sets? In particular, roman letters with accents and diacritics?
2) Does the Touch allow you to load custom fonts and use those as a default for displaying books?
3) If an epub has fonts embedded in it, how does the Touch deal with that? Which takes precedence - the font(s) in the epub, or the font chosen in the settings on the Touch?
Thanks for any info. Oh, and one question unrelated to fonts:
4) What does "sideloaded" mean? Is this an epub file loaded from the PC, rather than downloaded from Kobo? Does the device handle them differently in some way?
Thanks. |
1) Can't really say since I have no epubs that use extended characters. I have however downloaded a unicode font into my KT so that I can read Japanese. So if the default fonts don't have support you can always add it by installing a font that has those extended characters.
2) Yes, though there is good and bad to that since the font you select will become the font you view all other epubs until you change fonts again. This is assuming the epub does not have an embedded font that overrides the KT font setting. Simply create a folder called ".font" and place your font file into it.
3) I believe at present the embedded font takes precedence.
4) As I understand it 'sideloaded' just means you have installed an ebook on your device through means other than purchasing/downloading ebooks from the Kobo shop. e.g. via copy to KT device when connected to your computer and the KT and microSD card (if available) is viewed as an external drive.
**edit: Ah added my post a bit late.
