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Originally Posted by ProDigit
The question is, if you really need it?
Without looking at any statistics, I would say English books make up of over 50% of the world's books, most of them coming from USA, but also some from Australia, Great Britain, and other parts of the world.
Again, without seeing any real statistics, I'd guess that 99% of these books don't need to use anything above the ISO-8859 standard.
I'm trying to think about how many books have I read before, that used more than one language (except perhaps an occasional short sentence paraphrased)?
Almost none, but I do see the potential for Latin writers writing in English, and having some "Spanglish" moments in their writing.
I'm not trying to advocate for ISO-8859-1, but just mentioning that some people can make a big deal out of using UTF-8, when in reality, the book could have had the ISO-5889 coding and still looked exactly the same.
But it is what it is... Big corporations determine what we need, even if we don't, and the flock just has to follow along...
Kind of reminds me of my cellphone. Android decided that those phones really needed 64 bit, and a processor in it, so the phone barely lasts one day on a charge,
while I still could think most apps and browsing on mobile, could still be done on 16 bit operating systems (32bit already was an unnecessary overhead).
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It is not just language differences. You need curly quotes, emdash, ndash, and a lot of
special characters to make an eBook look like a book. See our wiki. UTF is the only way to go.
Dale