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Originally Posted by chrisridd
I just don't understand why the Kobo firmware doesn't have a version of NotoSans with those extra glyphs out of the box. Surely that's simpler than downloading a font over the net and then loading it separately?
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The
Noto font family is created by Google. Google's main Noto Sans and Noto Serif fonts support Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. Each of the 90 other scripts supported by the font family is in a separate file. Google's
official explanation for this is that OpenType fonts have a hard limit of 65,535 glyphs, and the full Noto font family has a lot more than that.
From Kobo's point of view, my guess would be that they don't want the added hassle of having to maintain a fork of the Noto fonts which combines the scripts they support into a single file -it's probably easier for them to just use the files provided by Google and add in whatever e-ink optimizations they put in.
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Originally Posted by Colonel Cathcart
Those fonts were downloaded on demand, when I first opened a book that required Hebrew and Arabic fonts. Funny enough, I already had Hebrew fonts side loaded and was able to render Hebrew perfectly fine.
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Did it delete your sideloaded font files when it downloaded its Hebrew fonts? I used to have Noto Sans Hebrew (which I prefer for Yiddish on e-ink), and it deleted those files when it download Noto Serif Hebrew. I re-added them and it's not removed them since, but I thought it was rather peculiar that they were deleted in the first place.