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Old 08-18-2012, 03:08 AM   #1
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Kobo replacing double L words like "Kill,All" with a space
I have a kobo touch firmware 2.0.0

last 2 books (side loaded epub) I have read have every single world with 2 "L's back to back replaced with a space such as.

"He killed the man" = "He Kil ed the man"
"All the food was gone" = "Al the food was gone"
"Men work for a hand full of dollars" = Men work for a hand ful of dol ars"

some books work fine others don't. I also notice it hyphenates words in the middle of a word like

I love apples, but I hate oran-
ges.
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Old 08-18-2012, 03:14 AM   #2
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your keyword is "ligatures"
Does the same happen with e.g. "tt, fi"?
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Old 08-18-2012, 06:23 AM   #3
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I have a kobo touch firmware 2.0.0

last 2 books (side loaded epub) I have read have every single world with 2 "L's back to back replaced with a space such as.

"He killed the man" = "He Kil ed the man"
"All the food was gone" = "Al the food was gone"
"Men work for a hand full of dollars" = Men work for a hand ful of dol ars"
What is the source of the epubs? Converting from PDF will frequently do this, as well as problems with other ligatures as mentioned by Freeshadow. Have you looked at the epubs in other ways? The calibre view or Sigil come to mind as good ways to check.

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some books work fine others don't. I also notice it hyphenates words in the middle of a word like

I love apples, but I hate oran-
ges.
That is a known and well discussed problem with the 2.0.0 firmware.
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Old 12-20-2012, 02:04 PM   #4
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On my Glo (firmware 2.1.5) I have noticed the same problem with ligatures, particular "ff" in the word officers, which is displayed as "o icers". This only happens with certain fonts; for example Kobo Nickel (built in) is OK, as is Charis SIL (side-loaded) but other side loaded fonts (e.g., Fontin) display the problem. Charis SIL has over 4000 glyphs in it, many of them ligatures, whereas Fontin only has about 240 glyphs, and I don't think it has any ligatures. So presumably if I could add the correct ligature glyph to the Fontin font, it would be OK too, but I have not been able to work out what the correct glyph is.

Also, strangely if I copy the epub with the ligature off the Glo, unzip it and then open the html with the ligature in it in a text editor (such as Notepad++), I do not see any ligature character, just two normal "f" characters. It is as though the Glo is converting to ligatures on the fly when it renders the epub.
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Old 12-20-2012, 02:20 PM   #5
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Trust me; this issue pf missing characters in some of the Kobo fonts has been raised numerous times with them; both here and in the beta discussion areas.

Try reading a cookbook where the 1/3 or 1/4 measurements are missing....
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Try reading a cookbook where the 1/3 or 1/4 measurements are missing....
Or where they show up as diagonal arrows.
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Thanks for the info. I am using a side loaded epub by the way. I tried adding ligature glyphs to the Fontin font, using the Charis SIL font as a template, but I could not get it to work in Fontin. There is more to this than meets the eye...
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