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Old 12-27-2007, 03:53 AM   #10
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Accented characters and certain glyphs (like AE) are the key differences. For most books in English there will be no difference. Some installations will have a hic-up with US-ASCII and need the ISO-8859-1 version. Some of the Gutenberg texts that I have used as basis for ebook creation have been available in US-ASCII only. When possible I favor the ISO-8859-1 version. Jon has had a great deal of success using the HTML verson of the Gutenberg texts.

Either choice will yeild a great result.
HTML is always to be preferred over a text version, because it will have additional formatting - italics, centred titles, etc.

If you have to use text, the ISO 8859 version is better than US-ASCII because it will, as you say, preserve accents. Even English-language books can contain words with accents!
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