German readers: Parallel thread at E-Reader Forum
I’m working on
new single-source German hyphenation patterns for Linux and many types of e-readers, including Kobo. These are based on a ~600,000 word text corpus and generate patterns for the German reformed spelling (1996/2006).
Since I don’t own a Kobo, I cannot test this, and
ask for your help in testing, please.
I’d be interested in:
- Does it work at all?
- Can the Kobo software use UTF-8 hyphenation dictionaries?
- Are special word boundary cases recognized and handled correctly, like shown in the screenshots?
I tried to prepare a Kobo-compatible file. As far as I have read, you’ll have to:
- Unpack the ZIP archive.
- Connect the Kobo via USB.
- Copy the unpacked KoboRoot.tgz into the .kobo folder on the device.
- Safely eject the device.
- The Kobo reader should then install the new German hyphenation dictionary.
Here is one of the books I used for testing:
Hans Dominik - Atlantis. It has real crazy, manually constructed "ellpises" at word endings, constructed like (NNBSP)(.)(NNBSP)(.)(NNBSP)(.).
Screenshots: Left—bad hyphenation; Right—new version
hyph_de.dic