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Originally Posted by Stodder
Hi guys,
I promise not to ask another question here for the next few days, but I just had to get an opinion on this  :
What's the best doctype and charset to use for creating Kindle-compliant mobi files? I'm thinking of using XHTML Strict and ISO 8859-1.
Will this be compliant, and will it be able to handle named character entities (— et al)? My validation has come up clean, but I'm never sure what to make of charsets and the associated dtd stuff.
Any help would be great :-D
Stodder |
I'd recommend XHTML 1.1 Transitional, but be sure to limit use to XHTML that's valid in the
ePub 2.0.1 spec.
And then you'll probably want to limit even more to things that convert to Mobipocket well using kindlegen.
You should definitely use utf-8 as the character encoding, as that's a requirement of the ePub spec (well, or UTF-16, but that would just be silly.), and is also handled well by kindlegen.