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.