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Originally Posted by ebookrights
1. On her publishing platform.
2. On her ereader.
3. On her applications for PC, Android, iPhone...
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One thing to make clear is that I do not read either Simplified or Traditional Chinese. I do have some friends and co-workers who do and I've helped a few of them to configure their ereaders to allow reading Chinese language texts.
Kobo publishing platform is close to epub3 so not a problem. You can use the language direction directives. You do have to rename an epub to .kepub.epub to use the ACCESS renderer on the Kobo ereaders to make use of the epub3 features.
On the ereader, if you add a font that supports Chinese characters, you can read Chinese (simplified or traditional). Currently, my preferred fonts are Microsoft Arial Unicode or Code2000. See about adding fonts to a Kobo ereader with emphasis on font naming and the directory in which to put the fonts. Basically, as long as the font is installed and you select the font in the font dialog, reading is not an issue. The table of contents is a bit iffier. I prefer to add the fonts to the ereader rather than embedding them in the epub just to keep the file size down.
One issue is that quite a few Chinese language texts seem to treat each chapter as a paragraph which does trigger the Kobo long paragraphs being split oddly bug.
Searching for books is an issue which has been worked around by using pinyin for the author and title in the metadata.
I've never tried to read Chinese epubs with Kobo's application platforms so can't offer an opinion.
See the Modified Fonts sticky for more information on fonts. Link is
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=204363
Regards,
David