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Originally Posted by ProDigit
My impression was that almost all of the base iso-8859-1 characters display exactly the same as the utf-8 ones.
The alphabet, numbers, spaces, basic punctuation....
I've seen books on sale in the store, where publishers use the iso-8859-1 format, so I presume that utf-8 or utf-16 isn't a requirement, but iso-8859-1 is also a valid option...
I mean, I would want to make a distinction between encoding 'preferences' and 'requirements'. Requirements mean that unless it's not there, the book will error or not display on an ebook reading device.
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Then those books are wrong. Unicode is required and will not cost you additional space. Further more, codepages are a thing of the past that should only be used with a lot of caution. Faults in books will not always cause an error or non-display in reading devices, but you will never be sure. It might work, it might not work. Really, use UTF-8 and you will only profit from it.