[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Stodder

However, I thought UTF-8 was not workable in Kindle (Amazon: Formatting Your Book > Character Encoding and Supported Characters)?

That page is talking about Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, where you send them an HTML file and they convert it to a Kindle file. You don't want to do that. Use the free kindlegen locally - it'll be faster and give you more control.

Amazon Kindle ebooks most certainly can use utf-8. I have several published at the moment that use it.