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Originally Posted by giladros
I have a Kobo Glo and would love to be able to read Hebrew books on it. I tried downloading two attachments from this thread (UDHR and the Hebrew English Bible) and both do not appear correctly (I get symbols, not even Hebrew letters). I also tried downloading one of the free books on Mendele, changing the extension to .kepub.epub and still I get the same result. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I see that in particular DNSB has succeeded in viewing Hebrew books correctly on a Kobo Glo. If you could please attach the epub you used for those screenshots, that would be a very helpful first step.
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Attached is a screenshot of what I see when I simply copy the attachment in
post #1 (ArieBaalGoof-test1.5.epub) to my Glo, without changing the filename or anything else. (i.e. this is the ordinary ePub reader, not the KePub reader.)
If you see empty squares in the book then it means the font you have selected doesn't have Hebrew glyphs, so just use the Aa menu to select one that does. If the book has an embedded font then you might need to select "Publisher Default" to see it, depending on how the publisher has done the stylesheet.
(Edit: Another possible reason for seeing empty squares is if the publisher has used the wrong text encoding for the book. This sometimes shows up in English books as blank squares or wrong glyphs used for speech marks and other punctuation.)
If you see empty squares for the book title in the library, it means the fonts loaded by default when the device boots don't have Hebrew glyphs, but once you open a book and select a font for reading the necessary fonts will be loaded and the library will display Hebrew titles thereafter, until the next time you reboot the device.
Edit: This is with the current firmware version 3.19.5761. There was a major update to the ePub reader in firmware version 3.5.0 (July 2014), so if you use firmware older than that then it will be different.
This thread is very old, and the early posts will be talking about very old firmware.