Comments on: Unicode Font Hack v0.2, now for Kindle International too!

By: AliZ

AliZ — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:43:24 +0000

here’s a Farsi/Persian eBook, would somebody please check how it looks on kindle with hacked Unicode fonts.
http://ifile.it/8enuk51/Instapaper-2011-07-10.mobi

By: Andrei Pushkin

Andrei Pushkin — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:46:11 +0000

Hossein,

International characters in PDF will work even without the hack.

By: Hossein

Hossein — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:35:46 +0000

This is a Persian PDF file. Please kindly take a screenshot with your kindle. Thanks.
http://www.teribon.ir/files/naghd-e-ghal.pdf

By: Andrei Pushkin

Andrei Pushkin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:32:35 +0000

Burt,

Please read the page completely before doing anything to your Kindle. It says about preventing updates and voiding warranty right on the top. You can uninstall the hack, apply the update and then re-install the hack

By: Burt

Burt — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:38:33 +0000

Was unable to update software on Kindle 2 after hack. Customer service says I have voided warranty.

By: Andrei Pushkin

Andrei Pushkin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:48:10 +0000

Abdullah,

If you send me a sample book in Farsi, I can post a screenshot of how it looks like on K3

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:22:59 +0000

I want to buy a Kindle 3 but I’m not sure that my Farsi/Persian ebooks may be readable or not. Any Idea?
can you do something for Farsi/Persian language support? (It is right to left Unicode text like Arabic).
Please help

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:54:47 +0000

GNU FreeFont lacks Asian glyph support AFAIK

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:31:57 +0000

@Admin

BTW, if anyone has good open source fonts in mind – please suggest them.

GNU FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatability with all modern operating systems. http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

By: Edge

Edge — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:53:43 +0000

I updated UFH using the Georgia font, for all devices running the new 2.3 update. Files and screenshots can be found here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=668959&postcount=41

I haven’t had a chance to test these, but used the –ex and –sign for all three versions (K2, K2i and KDX) so they should work fine and not require a pre-jailbreak. Please post your results. Thanks!

By: Desmond

Desmond — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:41:51 +0000

Thanks for your new patch !!! It’s a good news I can see asia fonts now !!!!

By: Edge

Edge — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:09:48 +0000

Works fine on 2.3 (K2i) – as do all the other hacks!

By: Edge

Edge — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:16:07 +0000

Any news on this hack (or others) and the new 2.3 update?

By: Edge

Edge — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:45 +0000

Here’s the link for the Unicode Font Hack (UFH) using Georgia fonts (Normal, Bold, Italic, Bold-Italic), for the Kindle2 International. Now includes screenshots plus the -k2iex BIN which will work on non-jailbroken Kindle2 International devices (the jailbreak is built in). Cheers!

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=660220&postcount=6

By: Edge

Edge — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:45:49 +0000

There’s a link here for the Kindle International Font Hack using the Georgia Fonts (Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic). http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=659081&postcount=49

This BIN file has been installed on my Kindle International and works fine, but like always, you must be careful with all hacks, especially the font hack. I take no responsibility for any errors or Kindle bricks. Enjoy!

By: ben

ben — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:27:46 +0000

to Kevin Tai

This may because of the coding problem of the txt file itself. Try other Chinese txt such as UTF-8. Good Luck

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:49:43 +0000

I was wondering if I could get some help. I downloaded the hack file for my Kindle2 and copied it to the root directory, as described in the instructions. When I went to settings and pressed menu “Update Kindle” Grayed out, meaning of course that I could not install the hack. Any Ideas? I am using a Mac Book Pro running OSX 10.5 (Leopard) and I don’t know if perhaps this makes a difference.

By: Edge

Edge — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:35 +0000

Be careful with this hack. I installed Droid on my Kindle International, and then tried Liberation. Uninstalled that, installed Droid again, and bricked my Kindle. The font files were fine. The Anti-Brick was installed but didn’t help at all. I was able to enter Recovery Mode, but from there, nothing (no BIN file to remove), and it rejects all updates. It seemed random. Now it just says, “Your Kindle is Damaged.” Just a note of caution.

By: nobuo

nobuo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:51:35 +0000

Great hack.

Installed Droid font, and works fine.
Blocks appears when Non-standard Japanese [kanji] characters are used, but otherwise fine.

BTW, Browser is available in Japan. After hack, Browser can display Japanese site, G-mail is accessible also. But it often cause full-reset when accessing. Also Wikipedia is accessible, but when visiting Japanese site nothing be displayed.

By: Kevin Tai

Kevin Tai — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:05:26 +0000

Hi, I unstalled ufh.
and restalled droid again. This time it did work.
I’m so excited.
Thanks a lot.

By: Tuzemec

Tuzemec — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:34:14 +0000

Installed and works fine so far. But I installed the liberation font and I find it a bit hard to read. Can I install directly the droid ones? Or I have to uninstall everything and start from the beginning?

By: Kevin Tai

Kevin Tai — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:40:25 +0000

I hav failed again and again. Mine is K2i.
And I don’t know why.
First I jailbroke the device. And it did failed.
Then I copied the font for k2i.
And updated. It showed the update was successful.
I was so happy to see it.
But, when I copied a chinese text to K2i.
all I can see is tons of small square boxes.
P.S. Mine did show “+UFH0.2″

Any help?
Anyway, thanks.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:52:34 +0000

Great Hack!

Please publish sources to build international update .bin

By: Edge

Edge — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:11:25 +0000

These hacks work totally fine! I’m just waiting for something other than droid, or a command file which will allow me to create my own BIN update file for the International (it only creates for the Kindle 2 and DX right now).

By: Rebecka

Rebecka — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:43 +0000

Doesn’t seem like it :( I update this page every day to see if there’s an answer. Has anyone found any other hacks that may work?