Custom Fonts, especially for non-European languages

I sometimes read Japanese and Korean e-books, but since BookShelves does not include fonts that cover those languages, they are only shown in the ugly default font that I don't even know how to call, no matter which font I choose. I have also tried Font > Publisher Font after including a font in the book, but the problem just persists. It would be great to use any fonts installed on the device.

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*great to be able to use

I don't know why I said the version above.

I read a lot of Bangla/Bengali books. I cannot change fronts. I have so many Unicode Bangla Fronts that I love but I cannot use it, hence not using BookShelves app as much I would love to use. Please add an option to use custom fronts.

Thanks for the feedback! Better font support for non-Latin languages is on our roadmap. We're planning to:

Let you use fonts already installed on your device in the reader. We'll filter the list by the book's language so you see relevant fonts instead of hundreds of system fonts.
Bundle some basic fonts for scripts we don't currently cover (Bengali, Arabic, etc.) so books look good out of the box.

In the meantime, the "Publisher Font" option will use any fonts embedded in the EPUB itself, if your ebooks include them.

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BookShelves Team changed status from Open to Review · 1mo ago

Custom Fonts, especially for non-European languages

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