On 13 Jul 2008, at 3:35 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:

> Hi Christiaan,
>
> I'll provide an example.
> In a bib file saved in UTF-8 the following entry is exported with the
> standard rtf export template:
>
>       @book{Meyer:2000aa,
>       Address = {Gräflingen},
>       Author = {Meyer, Heinrich},
>       Booktitle = {Die Abenteuer der üblen Röstwurst},
>       Date-Added = {2008-07-13 15:25:32 +0200},
>       Date-Modified = {2008-07-13 15:26:10 +0200},
>       Title = {Die Abenteuer der üblen Röstwurst},
>       Year = {2000}}
>
> export output:
> [Meyer(2000)] Meyer, Heinrich: Die Abenteuer der üblen Röstwurst,
> Gräflingen 2000.
>

That's definitely not the default RTF export template. The default RTF  
export template is the one used by default for the text preview in the  
bottom pane. Perhaps you mean Copy As... Rich Text? That uses latex  
and latex2rtf. I can very well imagine that not to be UTF-8-safe.

Christiaan

> The editor I copied the export into has UTF-8 set as default. I have
> reset the standard templates to make sure I have not modified it in
> any way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> Am 13.07.2008 um 13:02 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
>
>>
>> On 13 Jul 2008, at 12:43 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> playing around with the export templates I ran into the following
>>> problem: the default rtf export template does not respect german
>>> Umlauts. I tried to change the bib-file's encoding from UTF-8 to ISO
>>> Latin 1 and Mac Roman but still the problem persists. James
>>> Harrison's preview template produces the correct output.
>>> I could not find any hint about how the encoding of the templates is
>>> set. Could any of the template wizards give me a hint what I am
>>> overlooking?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alex
>>
>> Templates should always be saved in UTF-8 encoding. For RTF this is
>> not relevant, because that uses UTF-8 always anyway. Non-ascii
>> characters should not be a problem, especially for RTF templates. The
>> only thing I can think of is some cleaning key that removes umlauts.
>> Are you talking about umlauts in generated content or content in the
>> template file itself?
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>
>
>
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