|  12-21-2011, 02:26 PM | #1 | 
| Enthusiast  Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Georgia Device: Kindle 3 | 
				
				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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|  12-21-2011, 05:48 PM | #2 | 
| Evangelist            Posts: 416 Karma: 1045911 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Device: Kindle 3 | 
			
			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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|  12-22-2011, 04:59 AM | #3 | 
| frumious Bandersnatch            Posts: 7,570 Karma: 20150435 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura | 
			
			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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