On Mar 9, 2012, at 07:52 , Stian Håklev wrote: > I raised this as a bug report, but the developers closed it because the > BibTeX specs (designed in 1985) do not allow for UTF8 citekeys. (Personally I > think there should be an option to disregard the citekey completely and > generate a new one according to your own preferences).
I agree with you in principle, and I know this is a nuisance to work around. There are technical reasons why there can't be an easy fix in BibDesk, though. The problem is that BibDesk's BibTeX parser (btparse) does not allow this, so it happens too early in the process to do anything with it; it's still just a stream of unstructured bytes. Any preprocessing is fraught with peril, due to the vagaries of the BibTeX format itself, and would be terrible for performance. Modifying the lexer or parser is theoretically possible, but I think it would have to be regenerated with PCCTS... -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
