What characters are supported in DTP?
Amazon Digital Text Platform supports text in the ‘Latin-1’ format and all characters in that character set. The only characters from that set not currently supported are: spades, clubs, hearts, up-arrow, down-arrow, alpha, beta, gamma. That character set includes the most characters found in western European languages and many associated glyphs such as the ‘copyright’ mark, superscript (power of two) and German umlauts. You can see a list of all supported characters here. An image showing all those characters can also be seen here. Please note that the Amazon DTP interface will not automatically recognize ‘illegal’ characters in your input, such as Eastern European characters, Japanese letters, Russian characters, etc. You will therefore be able to enter unsupported text, especially in the fields for authors, content title, and other product information. When previewing your content after uploading it, illegal characters will not be displayed correctly in the content body. They will,
