On Nov 14 2012 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 14 2012 2:45 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> One thing that I had not expected was that biblatex/biber >> actually >> >> did >> >> not deal gracefully with entries which had honest to god unicode >> >> characters in the fields. I had to o in and clean them all out. >> >> That >> >> was a good exercise though, and I found and fixed a half dozen >> >> problem >> >> entries. >> >> >> >> >> > That's rather strange. One of the main advantages of biber is its >> > capacity >> > to handle unicode. It is in fact the main reason I switched to it >> a >> > couple >> > of years ago. Are you sure you ran biber with the --utf switch? >> >> After the fact I realized that there is a biblatex switch in jabref, >> and no, I did know about the -utf switch. That explains it (but it >> was >> still go to go through and clean everything up... >> >> > I got bitten by biber 's default behavior more than once. I still do > not > understand why utf is not its default mode, when unicode-dealing is > one of > its main selling points. I guess the developers must have had their > reasons...
true... but fixing the bib so that it did not require unicode to work properlly was a win regardless, so we are all good. Thanks for the pointer... Hmmm... while it was fresh in my mind I just ran biber --utf and it and that did not work, but the help suggested "-u Alias for --bibencoding=UTF-8" Cheers! EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Jabref-users mailing list Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users
