Thanks KevinH, much appreciated.
To correct my terminology (for own sake, and hopefully benefit others):
Unicode is a superset of ASCII. I should have referred to Unicode instead of ASCII. ePub 2.0.1 requires Unicode UTF-8 or UTF-16.(
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Yes, entity is what I should have said, not 'special character':
"An HTML entity is a piece of text ("string") that begins with an ampersand (&) and ends with a semicolon (
. Entities are frequently used to display reserved characters (which would otherwise be interpreted as HTML code), and invisible characters (like non-breaking spaces). You can also use them in place of other characters that are difficult to type with a standard keyboard. " (
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One thing I don't quite understand:
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Note named entities are not permitted in epub3 which requires numeric entities if you decide to keep them.
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Is it right to say:
Named entities are HTML, and Numbered entities are Unicode, as listed
here?
Again, sincere thanks, much appreciated.