On 29.04.2010, at 15:49, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> If the downloaded citation has special characters (in the example below,
> umlaut), bibdesk refuses to read the record when I paste it. I usually paste
> to a text editor, change the umlaut and then ccopy/paste to bibdesk. Is there
> a simpler way around this problem?
>
> @article{Stöber196862,
> title = "Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size
> range",
> journal = "Journal of Colloid and Interface Science",
> volume = "26",
> number = "1",
> pages = "62 - 69",
> year = "1968",
> note = "",
> issn = "0021-9797",
> doi = "DOI: 10.1016/0021-9797(68)90272-5",
> url =
> "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WHR-4CV917V-1Y/2/27dbfaeaa8011d03a304887c8a5d89a6";,
> author = "Werner Stöber and Arthur Fink and Ernst Bohn"
> }
The problem here are not umlauts or special characters per se, but special
characters in the cite key. BibTeX doesn't allow special characters in the cite
key, this is clearly against the specification of the format and any program or
website that produces a cite key with an umlaut is simply buggy. BibTeX (the
program) will not be able to process such an entry. If you change Stöber196862
to Stoeber196862, the problem is gone.
simon
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