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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.
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Just because it is
often sometimes safe to confuse the two, doesn't mean that given the choice you should.
ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are pretty interchangeable, if all you are using is ASCII...
So given that there is no downside whatsoever to using UTF-8, it is very difficult to know why anyone would want to avoid it.
And at the end of the day,
that is why people "can make a big deal out of using UTF-8".