<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="htmlhelp.encoding"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>htmlhelp.encoding</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">string</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>htmlhelp.encoding</refname> <refpurpose>Character encoding to use in files for HTML Help compiler.</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="htmlhelp.encoding.frag"> <xsl:param name="htmlhelp.encoding">iso-8859-1</xsl:param> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>HTML Help Compiler is not UTF-8 aware, so you should always use an appropriate single-byte encoding here. Use one from <link xlink:href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets">iana</link>, the registered charset values.</para> </refsection> </refentry>