Thread: Pop-up footnotes
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Old 12-23-2016, 06:02 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by ams View Post
Yes, the problem is the squares for some of the characters (ṇ ṭ ṅ ḷ ṁ ṣ ṃ ḍ). None of the standard included fonts can display these characters. I have unicode fonts like DejaVu and Linux Libertine in my fonts directory but this only works for reading the book, not for the pop-up footnotes. Actually the Kobo has the same problem with the title in the library view, showing squares if it contains one of these characters.
OK. I'm not a font expert, but my understanding is that if you opening a book and select a font that supplies the extra characters, then the next time you visit the library lists, the titles will be shown correctly. But, that might depend on the font. And I was hoping the footnote pop up would work the same way.

The popup does showed unformatted text. It strips markup such as bold and italics, so it might not show non-standard characters. But, maybe one of the people here who use the non-supplied fonts will have an idea.
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