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Originally Posted by SabaEdge
I have seen Kindle touch and Kobo touch. Which one comes with tamil fonts? Which one has more compatibility for tamil books? It will be nice if some one can give some idea on this.
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All Kindles come with the
code2000 font, which also covers Tamil. However, I don't speak Tamil and I don't know whether Kindles handle all Tamil vowel signs correctly.
Have a look at the screen capture that I took with my Kindle PW2 and verify the proper placement of vowel signs that are being displayed left of the base letter. If the Tamil text is displayed correctly, your father would have to convert all his ePubs with Calibre to the AZW3 format. (Not the MOBI format.) Note that you can't embed Tamil fonts in Kindle AZW3 books.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Epubs can have fonts embedded and the Kobo devices will use them for that book. The fonts can also be separately copied to the device. Then, when you are reading a book, you select the font you want to use.
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Rendering Tamil requires more than just embedding a font, because some Tamil letters have vowel signs that logically follow a letter but need to be displayed left of the letter that they refer to.
I added an epub file with an embedded Open Source Tamil font (Tamil_test_ebook_ttf_epub3.epub) that you can use to test Kobo Tamil support. AFAIK, you might have to change the file extension to "kepub.epub."