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Old 01-26-2010, 01:09 PM   #4
Peter Sorotokin
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Originally Posted by gulo View Post
Hi

I received my Nook last night and I was in for a terrible surprise when I found out that if won't display eastern European (Czech and Slovak) diacritic.

It does seem to show some characters like ž, ú or á but instead of ř, ě or č it just shows a question mark.

Please someone tell me there is a way to fix this !

I know that PDF files can have fonts embeded and those are OK but I really want to use epub. Should I maybe use different encoding ? Is there a way to embed font in epub ? What are the chances of someone replacing the font in a rooted Nook ?

Please help, I got tons of Czech and Slovak books I want to read.

thanks a lot !
There is certainly a way to embed fonts in epub (I mostly read in Russian, so I have to do it all the time). You can download epubgen-0.5.0.jar from http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/, run it on a .docx file and see what it does. At some point I want to morph it into a tool that would embed fonts into a given epub file, but that is still a long way off.

Epubgen subsets the font so the bloat is not that big (roughly the same as it would have been for PDF).

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