Hebrew characters putting words in the wrong place

Siavahda · Yesterday, 03:06 PM

Back again, sigh.

I have an ebook with three instances of Hebrew letters. The problem isn't getting them to display, exactly - with embedded Times font, that's covered. But the text around the letters - the words themselves are out of place, rearranged.

This is how it looks on the Kobo

This is what it looks like/how it reads in Calibre, the way it should be

Do you see? It's like the words after the Hebrew letter have been picked up and put in the wrong place. I don't know why. Is it something to do with Hebrew reading right to left? But I don't understand how that would matter when the ebook isn't set to read that way.

The ebook came with the characters themselves pasted in. I replaced them with unicode, just to see if that would make a difference, but alas it did not. I also tried all the pre-installed fonts, including the publisher one, and I tried embedding a Hewbrew font (PCSB Hebrew Regular). Nothing helped; in some fonts the characters appeared as numbers or other symbols, but still in the wrong place and with big spaces warping the paragraph.

I'm using EPUB, by the way, not KEPUB.

JSWolf · Yesterday, 04:22 PM

Nothing we can do unless we see the HTML/CSS.

Yesterday, 03:06 PM	#1
Siavahda Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 9400 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Helsinki Device: Kobo Clara Colour	Hebrew characters putting words in the wrong place Back again, sigh. I have an ebook with three instances of Hebrew letters. The problem isn't getting them to display, exactly - with embedded Times font, that's covered. But the text around the letters - the words themselves are out of place, rearranged. This is how it looks on the Kobo This is what it looks like/how it reads in Calibre, the way it should be Do you see? It's like the words after the Hebrew letter have been picked up and put in the wrong place. I don't know why. Is it something to do with Hebrew reading right to left? But I don't understand how that would matter when the ebook isn't set to read that way. The ebook came with the characters themselves pasted in. I replaced them with unicode, just to see if that would make a difference, but alas it did not. I also tried all the pre-installed fonts, including the publisher one, and I tried embedding a Hewbrew font (PCSB Hebrew Regular). Nothing helped; in some fonts the characters appeared as numbers or other symbols, but still in the wrong place and with big spaces warping the paragraph. I'm using EPUB, by the way, not KEPUB.

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Yesterday, 04:22 PM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 84,070 Karma: 153695583 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Nothing we can do unless we see the HTML/CSS.