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Thank you,
Most questions where answered already though, I know I've spent a few hours a day studying it, and learned a lot in the past week!
To address some things you mentioned, and for others reading this thread:
I gathered that unless you use special characters in the alphabet, like the Germans, French, Spanish,
Languages like Dutch and English, and perhaps a few more, are best off with iso-8859-1.
It's smaller, and more appropriate.
99% of this forum's English posts benefit from iso-8859-1, and don't need UTF-8.
The encoding type can be omitted in container.xml, since it doesn't have any textual data to display on the screen. The books that have omitted this data, did have it present in their chapter.html/xml files.
The better zip encoding was kzip, now succeeded by another encoding. It was optimized for text and images.
I've also used sigil to create my ebook's main files, simply because of the unique identifier it supplies you with. There is no easier way to get one, when manually compiling a book.
Not fond of calibre either.
The spaces in container.xml can be omitted.
I've seen some books omit /r/n data as well (enters), making the file one long line of unstructured data.
I'm not sure I'd want to go that far...
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