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shibuyaloren · 05-21-2021, 07:53 PM

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to both eBook formatting and Calibre, but willing to learn!

I have an ePub novel that was originally typeset in Reedsy. There are several instances of Japanese kanji characters in the book that show up fine in Calibre and in Kindle Previewer. However, when I send it over to my Kobo Libre, the Japanese text is deleted out. (Doesn't display as a blank or as weird characters; just vanishes entirely.) I know my Kobo has the ability to display kanji, because I just read a book that had it, and it was definitely text and not an image of the characters dropped in. Something in this book is not set up right, I'm guessing, but I'm not positive what. (I also tried generating ePubs from LibreOffice and Scrivener and they won't display the kanji either, so it's not a problem unique to the Reedsy-typeset file.)

I was trying to follow directions to embed the fonts after seeing older posts in this forum, thinking that might be a fix, but I've never worked in-depth with Calibre yet and I don't seem to be doing it right:

Spoiler:

Can someone nudge me in the right direction?

Thanks!

05-21-2021, 07:53 PM	#1
shibuyaloren Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: Kobo Libre	Japanese characters not showing up on some devices Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to both eBook formatting and Calibre, but willing to learn! I have an ePub novel that was originally typeset in Reedsy. There are several instances of Japanese kanji characters in the book that show up fine in Calibre and in Kindle Previewer. However, when I send it over to my Kobo Libre, the Japanese text is deleted out. (Doesn't display as a blank or as weird characters; just vanishes entirely.) I know my Kobo has the ability to display kanji, because I just read a book that had it, and it was definitely text and not an image of the characters dropped in. Something in this book is not set up right, I'm guessing, but I'm not positive what. (I also tried generating ePubs from LibreOffice and Scrivener and they won't display the kanji either, so it's not a problem unique to the Reedsy-typeset file.) I was trying to follow directions to embed the fonts after seeing older posts in this forum, thinking that might be a fix, but I've never worked in-depth with Calibre yet and I don't seem to be doing it right: Spoiler: Can someone nudge me in the right direction? Thanks! Last edited by WT Sharpe; 05-25-2021 at 09:01 PM. Reason: Image too large. Wrapped it in spoiler tags.