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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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Actually UTF is a requirement of the standard but as you say UTF-8 is a superset of some other older standards. The font set is set to whatever the eBook reader has loaded but the standard is still UTF.
By the way, the patents ran out on GIF some time ago. It is perfectly acceptable in ePub. No payments required.
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