topic Rif.: T3 and Russian keyboard in eReaders

T3 and Russian keyboard

stamigla — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:44:01 GMT

Hi All,

Bought T3. Gentlemens, where Russian keyboard? How do I search for the author of the Russian book? Search the internet, too, need. Can I install a Russian keyboard? And the menu could be.

Thn

Rif.: T3 and Russian keyboard

jan2011 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:56:57 GMT

Hi "stamigla"

I don’t think that’s possible to have (or install) a Russian keyboard on a Sony reader device, bought outside Russia! To do so, you must change PRS-T3’s firmware and that, I think, is not possible in “official way” (I don’t know about rooting)

I don’t know, also, if there is or will be a Russian version of PRS-T3 (a US version quite surely no), but if there is one, I think, that you cannot buy it yet: http://www.sony.ru/hub/elektronnii-reader (Only PRS-T2 at the moment).

Anyway, you can get further information by posting on Sony’s Russian Community

or get in touch with Sony’s Russian Support

Cheers

Rif.: T3 and Russian keyboard

stamigla — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:44:10 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I get it.
I live in Europe and bought in Europe. And T3 was made for Europe. In the EU there country of Bulgaria. They, too, Cyrillic. It's a bit strange for Sony.

Rif.: T3 and Russian keyboard

carpetmojo — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:49:12 GMT

"...................... It's a bit strange for Sony ......................"

What isn't ..........!

Tee hee ................

Rif.: T3 and Russian keyboard

jan2011 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:55:01 GMT

Hi “stamigla”

There’re too many states in Europe as Bulgaria. States as Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Greece,…. BUT…

There’re other languages as Cyrillic. Languages as Greek, etc… BUT…

“Business is Business”

Then, for Cyrillic-Russia there is another problem. Most Cyrillic’s e-books, are not .pdf or .epub but .FB2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook

Russian reader’s version (not only Sony) is able to view even this type of file (.fb2).

(The only solution for this problem is to convert .FB2 files to .EPUB file. Then if there aren’t Cyrillic fonts into .epub file, you have to insert them!!!

Second solution: buy Russian books in .epub but, ensure(?) first, that ebooks contain even Cyrillic fonts!!!!!)

Then, a Sony reader for:

-Japan is only in Japanese (menu, dictionary, etc)

-USA is only for USA and Canada (till PRS-T1 it was even for Europe, but after T1 you can select other languages but not Sony’s Reader Store outside USA-Canada, dictionaries only in three languages)

-Russian for Russia, Bulgaria,…(Cyrillic, able to view FB2 files,…)

-Europe, for rest Europe and I think Australia (6 languages translation dictionaries, and last models not able to connect with USA’s, Canada’s and Japan’s Sony Store)

But as I say:

“Business is Business”

Cheers