Aura Vietnamese full fixed 99% read for Kobo

[astroner]

Hi!
I spent two days studying how to make the kobo display Vietnamese. There are many ways that have been shared before. I followed and got a 99% read error. Another way to help me read the book but the title of the book was just the box. This is very annoying.

I downloaded a file and discovered that renaming the fonts to fontsx was what caused the kobo 99% read error.

mv usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fontsx

I added 1 line

mkdir usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts

This seems silly but it worked. I no longer see the white book (99% read error) The title and content of the book is now 100% Vietnamese. I share this up here hoping to help you save 2 working days or more!

You can download file from this

1.Download the fonts (NotoSerif) and a epub book
2.Connect your Kobo with PC.
3.Create fonts folder in kobo
4 Copy NotoSerif fonts to folder fonts
5 Copy epub file to your kobo
5.Eject and disconnect Kobo wait kobo autoupdate
6.Connect kobo to PC again
7. Copy KoboRoot.tgz to .kobo folder
8. Eject and wait kobo update
9. Now you see all are squares. Click on the book and click on the Aa icon. Choose Noto Serif and enjoy your book

I use google translate hope you can understand
Work for 4.4.9344 firmware

[JSWolf]

Don't use Bookerly. There are some bugs with Bookerly that may cause it not to display properly. You can fix things in a font editor, but unless you know what you are doing, stay away from Bookerly.

[astroner]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Don't use Bookerly. There are some bugs with Bookerly that may cause it not to display properly. You can fix things in a font editor, but unless you know what you are doing, stay away from Bookerly.

Thank you for comment. I replaced the bookerly with Noto Serif
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Serif

[dauphong]

Hi astroner,

I just used your patch for my Kobo Aura which can help me to read all my books in vietnamese. But some crash happend when I open some vietnamese book they just appear a blank screen and auto restart my Kobo. Besides some english character become square like vietnamese before patch.

I used 4.4.9344 software version.

Tks!

[astroner]

Originally Posted by dauphong

Hi astroner,

I just used your patch for my Kobo Aura which can help me to read all my books in vietnamese. But some crash happend when I open some vietnamese book they just appear a blank screen and auto restart my Kobo. Besides some english character become square like vietnamese before patch.

I used 4.4.9344 software version.

Tks!

+841246255777 this my phone number. If you still need help, please message me

[arashr]

Thanks for your guide @astroner.

However, I got away with something simpler:

* I didn't need to use KoboRoot.tgz or root my device whatsoever.
* I didn't use your attachment tiengviet.rar.
* No terminal usage, I just used Finder on my mac.

But your advice to use Noto Serif was spot on and probably saved me lots of time! Again thanks!

If anyone finds it useful, the instructions in this thread are similar to the ones in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahsySF4Hk4