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Elfwreck · 06-23-2023, 05:37 PM

I read on a Pocketbook Touch HD3, although that may change, and this is likely not a device-specific issue.

I am looking for a font that will show English, Chinese, and Japanese characters. Found Arial Unicode - but it doesn't support italics.

The situation: I'm downloading fanfic from AO3 as epubs. They come without fonts embedded. I can add fonts to the ereader (and I have), but embedding fonts in every single epub is a lot more work than I'm willing to deal with.

With most of the fonts in the ereader, non-US characters don't show up at all. One of them is obviously designed for those characters and it's horrible for English. (AR PL New Sung; it also doesn't show italics.) I'm not reading in Chinese or Japanese; I'm dealing with occasional words scattered through the stories, which don't even show up as squares or question marks, so sometimes the phrasing seems really odd (because I'm not seeing a word), and sometimes there's multiple blank lines that are apparently poetry I can't see.

Is there

A font I can embed, that has italics and supports Chinese and Japanese characters? or
An easy way to embed maybe Arial and run a script to update the CSS to use it for italics/bold? or
Some other way to let me see the full text of the stories I've downloaded?

I've gone into the /system/fonts folder. It was empty. There was /system/adobe/fonts which had... links? to the fonts listed in the settings, but the links didn't seem to go anywhere. But they apparently work as fonts.

I'm currently using the "default" font, which is a serif font. (Not my preference. I like slab serifs on ereaders. ... any chance Caecilia or something like it will have the character support I want?)

06-23-2023, 05:37 PM	#1
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	Font issues - Chinese, Japanese, English I read on a Pocketbook Touch HD3, although that may change, and this is likely not a device-specific issue. I am looking for a font that will show English, Chinese, and Japanese characters. Found Arial Unicode - but it doesn't support italics. The situation: I'm downloading fanfic from AO3 as epubs. They come without fonts embedded. I can add fonts to the ereader (and I have), but embedding fonts in every single epub is a lot more work than I'm willing to deal with. With most of the fonts in the ereader, non-US characters don't show up at all. One of them is obviously designed for those characters and it's horrible for English. (AR PL New Sung; it also doesn't show italics.) I'm not reading in Chinese or Japanese; I'm dealing with occasional words scattered through the stories, which don't even show up as squares or question marks, so sometimes the phrasing seems really odd (because I'm not seeing a word), and sometimes there's multiple blank lines that are apparently poetry I can't see. Is there A font I can embed, that has italics and supports Chinese and Japanese characters? or An easy way to embed maybe Arial and run a script to update the CSS to use it for italics/bold? or Some other way to let me see the full text of the stories I've downloaded? I've gone into the /system/fonts folder. It was empty. There was /system/adobe/fonts which had... links? to the fonts listed in the settings, but the links didn't seem to go anywhere. But they apparently work as fonts. I'm currently using the "default" font, which is a serif font. (Not my preference. I like slab serifs on ereaders. ... any chance Caecilia or something like it will have the character support I want?)