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Originally Posted by philsmobi
That sounds about as good a plan as any. I can't determine the creation date of that web page.
Also found this in the KDP guide dated March 2013:
So I'm going to roll with UTF-8.
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Well, yes, Phil, and, you overlooked this part of the original quote, from the older Help pages:
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On non-Windows platforms, make sure to save it as ANSI or ASCII, avoiding 'UTF-8' or 'Unicode' as the encoding type.
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And that was all for troubleshooting. What Amazon was really trying to discuss on that page was using the standard character set, and not using a boatload of unsupported keyboard-created characters (these are amazingly prevalent and heavily used on Macs). FWIW, I don't run into encoding issues here, and we deal with scads of Windows-genned Win-1252 files all the time.
I'm with Doits; use Sigil. It does all the pesky encoding quite nicely, and plays well with Kindlegen. Works a treat. Stick within the supported Latin-1 charset, OR, embed a font that has the characters you want, if you need them. You should be fine. (At least you actually read the Formatter's Guide and the Help pages. That puts you in the top 5% of newbs. Seriously. Maybe even the top 2%.
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