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The character encoding used is UTF-8.

Different character encoding exists such as ASCII, ISO 8859-1. Nowadays, UTF-8 is the most used because it represents many different characters , including those of different languages, symbols and special signs.

Objectives

  • Ensure that all characters are encoded by UTF-8 to avoid display issues
  • Ensure accurate representation of characters

Implementation

  • Configure UTF-8 production tools and databases as default character encoding
  • Set UTF-8 to the charset attribute of the meta tag

Control

  • Check the source code of the HTML page of epub : The meta tag with the charset attribute must be defined on UTF-8 and is in the head tag of the HTML page

Validation

  • Reported by epubcheck.

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