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northstar7 · 05-14-2012, 10:30 PM

I have been trying to embed the Liberation font in an ebook that includes quotations in Sanskrit, which include a lot of diacritical marks.

The marks appear in a few readers, but not in ADE. I have tried many different things, but the letters with diacriticals appear as rectangles with X's inside or they're just blank.

I have read that the Liberation font includes a large number of unicode glyphs and that it should work for this application. However, when I have downloaded the font -- multiple times -- I sometimes see that only about 700 glyphs are included. I am wondering if it could be that I'm not getting the glyphs I need.

If anyone can help me figure this one out, I'd be very grateful. I'd be happy to post what I'm doing if it seems like it would help.

Does it matter whether I use ttf or otf version?

Thanks a lot.

05-14-2012, 10:30 PM	#1
northstar7 Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle	Problem embedding font for Sanskrit I have been trying to embed the Liberation font in an ebook that includes quotations in Sanskrit, which include a lot of diacritical marks. The marks appear in a few readers, but not in ADE. I have tried many different things, but the letters with diacriticals appear as rectangles with X's inside or they're just blank. I have read that the Liberation font includes a large number of unicode glyphs and that it should work for this application. However, when I have downloaded the font -- multiple times -- I sometimes see that only about 700 glyphs are included. I am wondering if it could be that I'm not getting the glyphs I need. If anyone can help me figure this one out, I'd be very grateful. I'd be happy to post what I'm doing if it seems like it would help. Does it matter whether I use ttf or otf version? Thanks a lot.