The latest iTunes Producer Guide, version 2.8, indicates that a number of new languages are now supported by iBooks and the iBookstore using the ePub 3 format. iBooks 3 and iOS 6 are required. These are:
Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, Hebrew, Japanese, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tajik, Urdu, Uyghur, and Uzbek
(Unfortunately neither Pages nor iBooks Author can do the vertical layout and phonetic guides used in Chinese/Japanese books, and both have bugs with RTL scripts that make them normally unsuitable for Arabic, Dari, Hebrew, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Sindhi, Urdu, Uzbek, and Uyghur.)
Some info on creating ePub 3 with vertical text is at
http://www.slideshare.net/liz_castro/writing-epub-3-tokyo-ebook-expo
http://epicsword.pixnet.net/blog/post/38345625
2/16/2013: I have reports that despite what is written in the iTunes Producer Guide, the iBookstore will still not accept books in Arabic and other RTL scripts, even if the stated conditions are met.
Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, Hebrew, Japanese, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tajik, Urdu, Uyghur, and Uzbek
(Unfortunately neither Pages nor iBooks Author can do the vertical layout and phonetic guides used in Chinese/Japanese books, and both have bugs with RTL scripts that make them normally unsuitable for Arabic, Dari, Hebrew, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Sindhi, Urdu, Uzbek, and Uyghur.)
Some info on creating ePub 3 with vertical text is at
http://www.slideshare.net/liz_castro/writing-epub-3-tokyo-ebook-expo
http://epicsword.pixnet.net/blog/post/38345625
2/16/2013: I have reports that despite what is written in the iTunes Producer Guide, the iBookstore will still not accept books in Arabic and other RTL scripts, even if the stated conditions are met.
2 comments:
Is the Punjabi support for Arabic script (Shahmukhi)? Or for Gurmukhi script?
paul -- they haven't said and I don't know for sure, but I suspect it is Arabic script which is new here. Gurmukhi, along with Hindi and other Indic scripts have always been supported as far as I know.
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