Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 05-05-2022, 07:52 AM   #62
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How do I fix this?
You can fix it by using the "Encode HTML in UTF-8" option of the Modify EPUB plugin for calibre.


The problem occurs because although the EPUB specification requires Unicode encoding Amazon's kindlegen assumes that the default encoding is ISO 8859-1 if it is not specified in the EPUB. This is a holdover from the old Mobipocket Creator software that produced the original MOBI format.
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