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Old 10-26-2016, 03:41 PM   #38
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LOL I wouldn't say that. If it was written by engineers it would REALLY get down into the nitty gritty (like none of my posts).
Actually, my experience with stuff written by software engineers is that they usually skip over what they think are obvious steps in the process. So they'll tell you to look in X folder on your computer, but it's actually found in a sub-folder of a sub-folder in X. Drives me nuts.

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But try to explain something technical (like encoding) to your grandma. There is just no way!
I don't even bother. Last night my elderly mom (whom I take care of) asked me what I was doing. "Asking about Unicode characters in ebooks." "What's that?" "Never mind. Eat your dinner."

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Easier to just say: "Save it as ASCII/ANSI, if it doesn't work... not supported." Anything outside of (English letters + a few accented characters + most common symbols) turns to mush: "Well, if you keep having trouble, you can pay Createspace to create the file for you. *wink wink*"
Yes, I think that is often Amazon's strategy. I notice it elsewhere, too.

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I am not familiar with the intricacies of Microsoft Word, but by default mine is set to save as UTF-8 (don't know if that was just a setting I set a very long time ago or what, I have 2010 installed if that means anything).
The default encoding in all versions of Word shipped in North America is Western European (Windows), aka Windows-1252. You have to deliberately change it to UTF-8 when saving if you want UTF-8. The default encoding in Notepad is ANSI.
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