Hebrew fonts on digital readers

[Matan Ziv-Av]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Steve G. wrote:

> I tried converting a text document containing Hebrew and Spanish to 
> the Kindle format. The Spanish was readable, but the Hebrew was junk. 
> Although I can read html in Hebrew on the Kindle, it does not let me 
> read html documents that are stored locally. I contacted Amazon, and 
> was informed that Hebrew is not currently supported on the Kindle, 
> though they may be working on it. I can convert the document to pdf, 
> which I CAN read on the Kindle, but then I can't use a dictionary for 
> the Spanish, which is my goal in transferring the document. My 
> question is: is there another digital reader (sony, barnes and noble, 
> borders, whoever), which can handle Hebrew charset? I am NOT talking 
> about iPad or a similar devices, as they are much too expensive, and 
> of course any netbook and up can read the documents in multiple 
> formats.

You can change the fonts on the kindle[1], so if that is the only 
problem with the hebrew, you can use the kindle reader.

The browser indeed refuses browsing file://, so you can install a 
local httpd[2] to browse local files.

You can install fbreader[3] which has some form of hebrew support, and 
is in general a better reader software than the kindle reader.

[1] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88004
[2] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126128
[3] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10737


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