Thread: Sony PRS-300 - Hebrew Support
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Old 02-07-2010, 01:37 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by porkupan View Post
What may be true for Japanese is not necessarily true for Hebrew. The only format that currently supports Right-To-Left and mixed character direction in the Sony Reader is PDF. Well, unless you are making an "image-sequence" LRF or EPUB. Embedding or replacing native fonts in the firmware is not sufficient to make Hebrew work in the non-PDF text-based formats in the Reader. We tried.

As hard as it may be to believe, the East Asian languages are in this one sense closer to English than the alphabet-based Hebrew and Arabic.

This is really strange. When I'm using Hebrew ePub with embedded fonts, the text is displayed in the wrong direction. It seems like the only problem is supporting the RTL tag or style. While Calibre, AZARDI, FBReader, Bookworm, Stanza support it properly, how hard should it be to fix this issue?
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