Thread: Any e-ink kindle supports RTL properly?
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Old 03-15-2015, 01:45 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Is there a reason why Arabic fonts can't be embedded? That seems rather curious, given that other fonts can be.
You can actually embed Arabic fonts, but they're not rendered correctly. They're displayed RTL, but letters are displayed as isolated (disjointed) forms. (It looks like the glyphs in the screen capture.)

When Amazon first introduced AZW3 support, glyphs from embedded Arabic fonts were completely ignored.

eInk Kindles with a 5.6.x firmware actually show glyphs from embedded Arabic fonts but they're not properly shaped.

Most likely there's something wrong with a font configuration file.
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