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Unicode Font Hack Now Works with Kindle DX

As soon as kindle 2 was launched people started to hack the love-machine to find a way of more usability – unicode font hack (UFHack) is one of them. However, this hack didn’t work with the new kindle dx. Recently, folks at the-ebook.org came with a solution using igor’s mod. Blogkindle confirms that it works [...]

Written on June 23, 2009 | Posted in Kindle fonts, Kindle hacks, feature | 2 comments

Two recent kindle 2 hacks: Unicode fonts & Savory

B00154JDAI[/amazon-product]On blogkindle, a recent post with download links shows how you can install non-English unicode fonts and read your content in your preferred language. According to the post, “hack comes in a form of manually installable patch and is fully reversible. Source code is included so you can customize the hack.”
On another front, Jesse Vincent [...]

Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in Kindle fonts, Kindle hacks | No comment

Font mod tool for kindle 1

On the mobileread forum, lovebeta has just released a tool for kindle 1 (be careful, not for kindle 2) so that you modify the fonts that can render text in non-European languages. He uses “DroidSansFallback” font which “contains fairly complete unicode characters and is free”.
Accoring to him, “Due to the usage of symlink, you will [...]

Written on April 2, 2009 | Posted in Kindle 1, Kindle fonts | 2 comments