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The character encoding used is UTF-8.

There are different character encodings such as ASCII, ISO 8859-1. Today, UTF-8 is most widely used because it represents many different characters, including those from different languages, symbols, and special signs.

Objectives

  • Ensure that all characters are encoded using the UTF-8 standard to avoid display issues
  • Ensure accurate character representation

Implementation

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

Control

    Validation

    • Reported by epubcheck.
    • Needs to be human verified.

    Informations 

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    • Categorie : Code and structure
    • Rule origin : Opquast
    • Opquast reference : 4 226
    • Updated on September 18, 2024
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