Optimizing Sony Digital Paper for Chinese
4 minute read Published: 2024-06-18The Sony DPT-RP1 is a large-screen E Ink reader built for A4 PDFs. Sony ships the same firmware image in China, Japan, and the United States. A region identifier stored outside the firmware selects the UI language, the input methods, and the default font families, so flashing firmware cannot change the region.
The Japanese build has Japanese and English fonts. The American build has English only, while the Chinese build has Chinese and English. My Japanese unit rendered Chinese characters in a book's table of contents with Japanese glyph variants, or did not render them at all. The Chinese and American builds did not have that problem. Their default font families differ.