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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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If you use an ISO-8859-1 encoding and use that ePub as your source to sell at Amazon, your eBook will not properly display.
The reason publishers have gotten away with incorrect encoding is because ADE forced the ePub to be rendered with UTF-8. Other programs that read ePub might not do so and they would have an incorrectly displayed ePub.
I've also seen some cases where the wrong encoding causes the ePub to display in bold where it should not have. This was on a Sony Reader 505 using an old version RMDSK (ADE). So no, do not thing that the wrong encoding is OK just because whatever software you are seeing the eBook in looks like it should. Not every program will handle the wrong encoding like it was the correct encoding,