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Originally Posted by knc1
One of the reasons you didn't find any information about the Kindle Fire (of any age) here, is this is the Kindle E-Ink (grayscale) only forum.
Not only do the color model Kindles have different hardware, they also have a different operating system.
So at a minimum - you need to split your project into two projects.
One for each product line.
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So two projects it is. Are the E-Ink Kindles Android based?
I've been googling a bit about how to install fonts on Kindle Fire. I'll do some testing and report back on my progress.
I'm perfectly happy to restrict this discussion to the E-Ink devices, since I have to get that sorted as well!
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
Is Bengali an RTL script, or a script heavily relying on combined glyphs/diacriticals marks?
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Left to Right language and yes, complex glyphs.
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
FWIW, KF8 support goes as far back as the K3 (Kindle Keyboard) on the e-Ink line, so that's not too bad nowadays.
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That's good to know. Under the circumstances, do you think a publishing house can release Kindle ebooks which are not compatible with older Kindle models? If I can't figure out a way to make this work, I might need to distribute ebooks with this caveat (assuming Amazon will allow that).
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
I doubt anything custom would be possible without a root/jailbreak/hack. Which, quite frankly, will also mostly be the case on the eInk line if you forgo the KF8+publisher's font way.
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Can you think of any other way it might be possible to create Bangla ebooks? I prefer to embed the fonts but unfortunately that won't be supported by ALL Kindles.
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this post, Doitsu said that "all current eInk Kindles (K3 and higher) should support them, because the Bengali Unicode range is covered by the system fallback font."
Would that be true of earlier Kindles as well? I have no means of testing this.
FYI: Bangla is the 7th most spoken language in the world. Amazon, get a clue!