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Originally Posted by bizzybody
All these characters are in the extended ASCII set, or Windows 1252 which is pretty much the same thing.
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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).