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Old 12-21-2011, 02:26 PM   #1
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I specified UTF-16 instead of UTF-8
All my HTML files specified UTF-16 in my xml specification. I used Coffee Cup to generate the html fiiles. When I switch to Sigil to create an epub file, I have unreadable characters on my screen. Why?
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Old 12-21-2011, 05:48 PM   #2
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Do you actually need to use UTF-16? I doubt it.
Are the files actually encoded in UTF-16 - rather than just specified? You'll gave to check.
Do you want things to actually understand your documents? Well then I doubt it's a good idea to be using UTF-16, because I'm pretty sure nearly no readers will support it.
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The ePub spec says:

Reading Systems must parse all UTF-8 and UTF-16 characters properly (as required by XML).

That doesn't mean readers follow the spec, though.
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