Cyrillic letters in ePub books

I got a number of UTF-8 encoded .epub russian books. They open just fine on JetBook (updated to the latest 0.35m), but all russian letters are displayed as question marks, while latin is OK. It sounds like a proper UNICODE font is missing -- could it be added to the device? -- any other way to have it display cyrillic properly out of those files?

Assuming that your computer has what it needs of the UTF-8 to be able to properly read your
files, it might be possible that Calibre could provide results that would work in your Jetbook.
It takes little time to run a file through from .epub to .epub.

Luck;
Ken

I'll give it a try, thanks -- but what is the core issue here? Unpacking the ePubs in WinRar I can clearly see russian in the html there -- what prevents JetBook from properly displaying it?

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alpash wrote:I'll give it a try, thanks -- but what is the core issue here? Unpacking the ePubs in WinRar I can clearly see russian in the html there -- what prevents JetBook from properly displaying it?

I'm pretty sure the guy who founded ECTACO and the Jetbook project there is Russian, so they would
have been sure to have their eReader able to deal with Cyrillic. Not to mention that the Rus>Eng and
Eng>Rus dictionary is a standard feature of the Jetbook readers.

You could try putting one of your unzipped epubs on an SD card folder, the JBL reads .HTML just fine
and I would expect the regular Jetbook to handle them as well. (I use .html folders for large manuals
that are otherwise hard to load onto a JBL, works very well.)

Luck;
Ken

PS; Different software is used to read .epub and .pdf, depending on the firmware version you
may have on your Jetbook , I believe that the 35m version uses the same Adobe Reader
Mobile as the 0.16e version of the JBL firmware. .HTML is read by a different program.