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Old 05-13-2013, 09:52 AM   #336
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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan View Post
Considering that Kobo sells to the Japanese public I would say that it's certain that it supports vertical display. In fact I've seen it myself (on the Glo, not the Kobo)
the epub renderer doesn't support R to L writing, which vertical writing in japanese is. All R to L languages have this issue and have to use kepub instead. So even if it can display vertical writing, it won't be the right direction. It would still be L to R. I don't have a vertical writing japanese epub to confirm, but considering how much people using R to L languages have discussed this, I'm pretty confident.
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