: Re: Known Issues with Amazon's Converter What are the known issues with converting various document types to ebooks with Kindle's online or offline converters? I am not asking for a technical run-down

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Kindle uses ISO-8859-1 format, not UTF-8. So there are a lot of characters not natively included in Amazon's format. I am Spanish and I find issues with characters like — (em dash) or € (euro currency). Fortunately, you can use their html entity code instead. For instance, the html entity code for em dash is & mdash ; and the html entity code for € is & euro ; (without spaces).

Here you are:

ISO-8859-1 entry in Wikipedia. Incomplete support to Hungarian characters is mentioned by November 3rd 2014.
List of html entity codes in the W3 Consortium.

Amazon published a list of ISO-8859-1 characters in a gif image. This is my first post on stackexchange, so I cannot publish more than two links. This is the image distributed by Amazon (you can google it if you want to access the info by yourself):

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