I've always used UTF-8. That is what the standard is, that is what passes the validators.
However, I was troubleshooting an issue the other day and came across this page from Amazon that says:
So, now I am confused about what to encode Kindle products with.
Someone at KDP community suggested UTF-8 is the desired encoding, and that this Amazon page was either entirely inaccurate, or at least poorly worded.
Thoughts?
However, I was troubleshooting an issue the other day and came across this page from Amazon that says:
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...make sure to save it as ANSI or ASCII, avoiding 'UTF-8' or 'Unicode' as the encoding type. |
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Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing supports text in the 'Latin-1' (ISO-8859-1) format and all characters in that character set. |
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Please be sure to check that all the text you enter in the product info is therefore compliant with the Latin-1 character set. |
Someone at KDP community suggested UTF-8 is the desired encoding, and that this Amazon page was either entirely inaccurate, or at least poorly worded.
Thoughts?