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Originally Posted by jhowell
On top of that, the Android app crashes if I try to highlight an Arabic word. Apparently Amazon still has work to do.
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That's a long-standing bug. On my PW2, highlighting Arabic words and dictionary lookups works fine. However, it takes slightly longer than highlighting words in in Latin alphabet books.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
After digging more deeply in the 3.1.4 Previewer release I found references to two Arabic fonts: Diwan Muna and Sakkal Kitab. |
Interesting. I thought Amazon would simply include Arabic Noto fonts (Noto Naskh/Kufi Arabic), because they added Indic Noto fonts (Noto Sans Bengali/Devanagari/Gujarati/Kannada/Malayalam/Tamil/Telugu) to the Kindle firmware in 2016. AFAIK, Indic Noto fonts aren't bundled with KP 3.1.4 either. But then again, Caecilia and Bookerly have also been replaced with similar fonts in KP 3.1.4, presumably for licensing reasons.
BTW, both Diwan and Sakkal are well-known font foundries; they licensed some of their fonts to Microsoft and Apple.