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Originally Posted by jhowell
Out of curiosity I searched for kindle books in Arabic, but couldn’t find any at Amazon.com. Since that is now implemented as part of Kindle Previewer I expect it will be coming soon, but likely KFX only.
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As Notjohn has already pointed out, Arabic is not a
supported KDP language, however, all eInk Kindles with KF8/AZW3 support (i.e. Kindle 3 or better with the latest firmware) can display RTL languages in KF8/AZW3 books thanks to the
Code2000 fallback font, which is also bundled with Kindle Previewer.
However, the Arabic glyphs in that font are very hard to read and some diacritics aren't properly displayed. (You can see this if you convert
this epub3 book with diacritics to azw3. It should look
like this.)
In order to fully support Arabic, Amazon will have to bundle an Arabic font that is better suitable for eInk displays, e.g. Noto Naskh Arabic. (They already added Indic Noto fonts some time ago in one of the firmware updates.)
BTW, if you want to run some KFX tests, I uploaded
epub and
azw3 versions of an Arabic PD book to MR.