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Originally Posted by abcjoubin
Hi everyone,
* Finally, elvenic, how did you manage to display the Cyrillic alphabet on your device?
Changing fonts from Calibre software, the original RTF document or from the Glo device does not seem to make a difference?
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The Georgia font that is present in Kobo, supports Cyrillic letters - so I could read russian books even before I add Charis SIL font. Other fonts that are on Kobo by default either do not have Cyrillic letters at all, or show the text with cyrillic letters with huge spaces surrounding every letter making the text hard to read.
But, as jackie_w already pointed, some ebooks (and I personally have seen this with Kindle books purchased from Amazon) could have font-family hardcoded which could prevent font switching. And as I see you are trying to read a MS Word .doc file, MS Word really does hardcode into the document font-family in a very nasty way, by adding a style with hardcoded font name to every paragraph of the text, overriding your font selection (see a thread that I started in KIndle forum, about hardcoded fonts in Kindle books -
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=196475)
So yes, you can convert a book to PDF with embedded font to your liking, but that would probably disable flexibility you have with epub books - such as prevent changing font size while reading. You can try to convert your doc file with Calibre into epub, instructing Calibre to remove any hardcoded font information from the book - see my thread I linked above for instructions how to do this - then you should be able to select Georgia font and see cyrillic letters.
Also, as far as I know, recent versions of Calibre have an option to embed a font into generated epub file during conversion - not just a font-family name as MS Word does, but a font itself - all font data that specifies how to render letters on a screen. If you want to embed fonts into your ebooks, you can try that too, and have a epub files with all flexibility you do not have with pdf.