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Old 08-30-2023, 03:01 AM   #133
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Originally Posted by Colonel Cathcart View Post
It is supported, Kobo added Arabic and Hebrew fonts that download automatically if your device is connected to wifi a few firmware version ago.
It's just that the implementation has some issues.
When I look at the languages on the language selection page, where do I see Arabic or Hebrew? The default fonts on the device do not support Arabic or Hebrew out of the box which makes it hard to display a book title with the correct font. I could read books using Greek, Cyrillic or CJK fonts years back by sideloading fonts that supported the needed glyphs but that did not mean the book titles showed in the correct font, that I could switch the user interface to that language, etc. That is what I mean by a supported language.

Heck, I still have a font that allows me to display an APL programming manual as IBM meant it to be seen. That does not make the APL character set part of the default user interface character set.
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