Thread: Aura Kobo book titles in Arabic
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Old 02-09-2015, 01:35 PM   #5
mamado
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
It might be possible to fix the titles by patching the firmware. Can you point to a free example book with an Arabic title that I could use for testing?
You can download one from here http://www.hindawi.org/books/6818491...7%D8%B1%D8%A9/
You should find a green obvious epub link for download, this site has a good list of free and out-of-print arabic books.

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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
Edit: From what it looks like on my Glo, the Title is in Georgia/italic, Series in Avenir/normal, and Author in Georgia/normal. So maybe changing Title and Series to Georgia/normal will let it work in Arabic.
Can you please educate me on how to see this info?

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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
I have a patch for firmware 3.12.1 that fixes the Arabic title problem by changing the title font style from italic to normal. See this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=17
This is great, Thanks you.
  • I followed the instructions here
  • Added your patch to libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch (and disabled most others) but all arabic information (Title and author) are unreadable!
  • I redid the steps disabling all patches, and found the same behavior! (Title and author not visible), I opened an Arabic book played with the fonts, went back and found the author info readable again!
  • So I redid the steps again, now enabling your patch, opened library view, found all info unreadable, opened a book, then went back to library view and found the Title and Author info correctly readable

I am not sure what happened, but Thanks a lot.

btw, Is there a way to be able to search for info in Arabic?
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