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Originally Posted by Nabodita
I had a chat with Amazon and they assured me that the Kindle does not support Bangla font and they have no workaround for this.... So, epub.
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AFAIK, Amazon does not officially support Bengali Kindle books and you cannot embed custom Bengali fonts, but at least all current eInk Kindles (K3 and higher) should support them, because the Bengali Unicode range is covered by the system fallback font.
I just did a quick test with this
newspaper article and it appears to display fine on my old Kindle K3. You may want to double-check the display on your Kindle Fire, though.
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Originally Posted by Nabodita
1. Is bangla UTF-8 or UTF-16? UTF-8 appears to be declared by default in the content.opf file.
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You should declare the language code in the metadata section of the .opf file to ensure that readers with Indic languages support render the Bengali text correctly. (All source files should be utf-8 encoded.)
Code:
<dc:language>bn</dc:language>
You can embed custom fonts for readers that support them, but, AFAIK, you'll need to add an additional .xml file to epubs for iPads. For more information see this
blog post.
Note that most available eInk epub readers are based on a mobile version of
ADE and cannot handle Indic vowel signs correctly. (You can test the display of your epubs on non-Apple devices by opening them with the ADE desktop edition.)
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Originally Posted by Nabodita
After some research, I've decided to use Pages 2009 to create and convert the document to epub and Oxygen as the XML editor for tweaking the epub.
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Many ebook designers use
Sigil. You might want to give it a try, too.
(I created the test .epub file with it in a couple of minutes.)