[Q] NOOKcolor to display books in other languages?

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Anybody tested books in other languages for the NOOKcolor?

I loaded some Chinese books on the nook, the titled displayed fine but all the text when reading were in the question mark symbols "?".

I also tried loading by different formats and conversions but still nothing.

I don't have a nook to play with but here's my idea.


The Nook app uses fonts that only support a subset of Unicode for displaying the content. The reason the titles are displayed correctly is probably because for titles a different font is used.

I guess to fix this globally one would have to either hack the app so one can choose more fonts than it displays in the settings, or choose the ugliest of them and on a rooted Nook go look for the fonts on the device and rename one of the droid.ttf fonts to <that font's name>.ttf -> reboot, test, ... don't forget to make backups.

Here is how I modified the system font to support non-english language.

1. Fully root your phone and install su and SuperUser application as per this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857636

2. Copy your font files to media folder or anywhere that you can access while you use NC as storage through computer. I actually have created folder "fonts" which is "/media/fonts" from the shell.

3. Unmount NC from your computer.

4. Using Root Explorer and switch to R/W mode

5. Still in Root Explorer, copy font files from step2 to replace fonts in /system/fonts

6. Reboot

After I have done the steps above, now I'm using my NC to read Facebook Feeds in Foreign language.

Which fonts where present in /system/fonts before you added yours?

Which fonts did you edit?

I got in, copied some fonts, but still didn't display properly. Is there a special font pack for android?

I might have copied the wrong fonts and now I can't delete those really big font files. How can I delete it?

I load some Chinese PDF format ebook (I used to have a sony ebook reader), and it works perfect. However, it doesn't do any bookmark, so everytime when I open the pdf, it starts in begining.

Originally Posted by pudd

I load some Chinese PDF format ebook (I used to have a sony ebook reader), and it works perfect. However, it doesn't do any bookmark, so everytime when I open the pdf, it starts in begining.

Yeah the pdf loaded fine for me as well, however, its still hard to read for me and I needed to be able to load it on the nook color by text so I can customize the text size.

Originally Posted by nk414

Yeah the pdf loaded fine for me as well, however, its still hard to read for me and I needed to be able to load it on the nook color by text so I can customize the text size.

I used www.inien.com to do the conversion. so far so good.

The browser does unicode - I read on.cc from time to time on it just fine. ssongpol might be right, it might just be that particular font you used. Converting PDF to epub would also give you a lot more reading options as well.

Originally Posted by ssongpol

Here is how I modified the system font to support non-english language.

1. Fully root your phone and install su and SuperUser application as per this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857636

2. Copy your font files to media folder or anywhere that you can access while you use NC as storage through computer. I actually have created folder "fonts" which is "/media/fonts" from the shell.

3. Unmount NC from your computer.

4. Using Root Explorer and switch to R/W mode

5. Still in Root Explorer, copy font files from step2 to replace fonts in /system/fonts

6. Reboot

After I have done the steps above, now I'm using my NC to read Facebook Feeds in Foreign language.

Followed these instructions.
Copied the following fonts from my windows 7 into /system/fonts
simhei.ttf
simsun.ttc
uming.ttc
I'm now able to read chinese under the Kindle app.
Calibre was used for conversion