Thread: Typos in ebooks
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Old 01-31-2011, 07:59 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by bizzybody View Post
All these characters are in the extended ASCII set, or Windows 1252 which is pretty much the same thing.
You are assuming there's one "extended ASCII", but that's not true, there are many. Which one should be chosen? The one you like best? Windows 1252 is comparable to ISO-8859-1, which is fine for Western European languages, but why not any other variant?

Most current devices are perfectly capable of showing a wide range of Unicode characters, there's no need to "downgrade" to some limited 8-bit encoding. If some characters are not properly displayed it's because the device is lacking a good font (and the possibility of using a custom one). Should ebooks be created with typos just so they show sort-of-OK in defective devices? I don't think so. What if next month a software upgrade fixes the devices? Now suddenly all those books would be of reduced quality for no reason (and don't hope a "corrected" version of every book will be released).
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