06-28-2018, 03:12 PM | #1 |
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English words being recognized as Arabic
I've been having a problem with Kindle Previewer not allowing me to export to mobi because it does not support Arabic and Indian languages. This has puzzled the heck out of me.
When I try to convert same epub in Calibre to mobi, it does it but then Previewer tells me something is wrong with the file and nothing loads. Same thing upon loading it in Kindle for PC. Finally I find in Calibre's Editor, which I'm totally illiterate at using btw, and I see 156 words that I recognize as English and they are listed as Arabic. How can I fix this??? I really need to get all of these words recognized as English and to be able to create a mobi file via Kindle Previewer. |
06-28-2018, 03:41 PM | #2 | |
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If you plan to publish your book on Amazon you should be aware of this restriction from the KDP Arabic page:
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06-28-2018, 03:54 PM | #3 |
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We do want to publish it on KDP and are aware of this, thus the problem. The book is in English. I have no clue why some words are being recognized as Arabic. And it has nothing to do with fonts.
To give an example of just a handful of words that Calibre is saying are Arabic, and that I'm sure Kindle Previewer is picking up the same: a and with what whatever These are clearly English words, so why is it saying they are Arabic? |
06-28-2018, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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Have you checked the language set for the book in the opf?
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06-28-2018, 04:06 PM | #5 |
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I just saw in the edit metadata section that the language was set as both English and Arabic. I changed it to English, saved a file, took it into Kindle Previewer and it finally let me export it. So this was the problem.
What a relief to have this solved! Thanks for your input!! |
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