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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I cannot say. I do know that ADE forces UTF-8. But I'm not up on all ePub readers. I know Kindles do not and if you convert such an ePub, you will get incorrect encoded characters.
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The meta tag attribute isn't necessary. EPUB only supports UTF-8/16. So if a valid epub goes into kindlegen, no character-encoding issues will arise. Besides ... 'encoding="utf-8" ' is usually already included in the xml declaration of most epub xhtml files.
Kindlegen supports other character encodings on other type of kindlebook sources, but that wouldn't apply to valid epub sources being converted (which MUST be UTF-8/16).
There is no "forcing" of UTF-8. Any epub rendering system that doesn't assume UTF-8/16 is a broken epub rendering system. And any epub that isn't UTF-8/16 encoded (regardless of whether your meta tag attribute is present) is a broken epub archive.