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+<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>