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Doitsu · 04-30-2018, 03:53 AM

@DaleDe: I've got a link for your locked Multilingual eBook topic:

Aglona Reader free Android/Windows app for parallel books.

Also, it might be helpful to investigate which readers/apps actually support books that don't use the Latin alphabet. Based on my limited research, the best options are Kindles, PocketBooks and Kobos:

Kindle readers/apps: both apps and readers come with code2000 as a universal fallback font and can display most languages covered by the the Unicode 5.2 standard.
Amazon also bundled some CJK and Indic fonts with all current models and apps and 2 Arabic fonts with the current iOS and Android apps.

PocketBook: PocketBook readers support Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, many Eastern-European languages (e.g. Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Georgian) and CJK.

Kobo: Kobos come with an epub3-compatible rendering engine and should be able to display all non-Latin alphabets in kepub books properly, if a suitable font is embedded or installed on the device. Kobos also have built-in support for Japanese.

04-30-2018, 03:53 AM	#5
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,695 Karma: 24031401 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	@DaleDe: I've got a link for your locked Multilingual eBook topic: Aglona Reader free Android/Windows app for parallel books. Also, it might be helpful to investigate which readers/apps actually support books that don't use the Latin alphabet. Based on my limited research, the best options are Kindles, PocketBooks and Kobos: Kindle readers/apps: both apps and readers come with code2000 as a universal fallback font and can display most languages covered by the the Unicode 5.2 standard. Amazon also bundled some CJK and Indic fonts with all current models and apps and 2 Arabic fonts with the current iOS and Android apps. PocketBook: PocketBook readers support Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, many Eastern-European languages (e.g. Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Georgian) and CJK. Kobo: Kobos come with an epub3-compatible rendering engine and should be able to display all non-Latin alphabets in kepub books properly, if a suitable font is embedded or installed on the device. Kobos also have built-in support for Japanese.