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Originally Posted by mamado
[*]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   [/LIST]
I am not sure what happened, but Thanks a lot. |
I think the problem is that Arabic is not one of the languages supported in the UI, so the Arabic fonts are not loaded by default when the device first starts. But after you open a book (and maybe select a font from the Aa menu?) then the Arabic fonts are loaded and available to the UI too.
(I'm not sure exactly how the Arabic fonts work, whether the Georgia font contains Arabic glyphs, or the UI is substituting the Arabic glyphs from another font such as Gothic. Whichever way, it seems there are no italic Arabic glyphs available to the UI, only regular ones)
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btw, Is there a way to be able to search for info in Arabic?
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I will have a look at how the Cyrillic keyboard patch works and see if I can adapt it to Arabic, but I can't promise anything.)