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Specifying Encoding
If you are converting to EPUB, HTML, HTML Help, or Web output, you can specify a character encoding method using encoding=specification. A character encoding is a rule for representing multi-byte characters as sequences of ASCII characters.
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The online help topic Character sets and encoding lists the values for encoding specifications.
The Arbortext PE Request Manager surrounds parameters with double quotes and encodes the characters\n, \f, \r, \t, ', ", \, and $ to alleviate confusion about escaped characters in a request.