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Originally Posted by Nil Einne
Good to see that you're getting something that works okay for you. It's a bit disappointing how weak support for even basic features for many non Latin like scripts, like decent text rendering, is on many ereaders. And if Arabic is working somewhat okay, which I believe requires some degree or complex text rendering, may be there is hope for other languages like the various Indic ones.
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Going by the Azardi/Inforgrid Pacific demo epub3 with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 28 languages, a Kobo can do a good job of displaying quite a few languages. Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Tamil, Nepali, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi (though I'm not certain which script is being used -- I think it is Devanagari), Arabic, Hebrew (RTL languages), Russian and Vietnamese.
Amharic and Malayalam required that I play games with the installed fonts to get them viewable. The rest were viewed using MS Arial Unicode. I wanted to see what the pages would look like without using embedded fonts and while that font is not the prettiest and has some pretty ugly glitches, it does have the best unicode support I've seen to date.
Regards,
David