2008/12/17 Piero Faustini <pierofaust...@hotmail.com>:
>
> Hello, I used Lyx 1.6.0 with Biblatex in a italian document.
> In order to mantain a lot of different languages encodings in my
> bibliography, I used to save my .bib file with a UTF encoding, and then in
> the Language options of Lyx, select a UTF extended encoding for my Document.
> I can't remember why I didn't choose other encodings, anyway, in this manner
> everything worked perfect. TILL I started to use LyX 1.6.1: now it seems that
> LyX can't read anything in the UTF .bib file (so the references dialogue
> doesn't show anything) although BibLaTeX can read everything fine and
> produces a perfect output. The problem is editing: now I can't select my
> references!
> The trick I'm using is have 2 identical .bib files in different encodings,
> one, in a simple encoding, indicated in LyX bibliography (which is by purpose
> put in a note in order to let BibLaTeX do all the job), the other, in UTF, in
> the preamble's BibLaTeX code.
> But this is annoying: everytime I change my bibliography file I have to
> produce 2 files! How to have back LyX 1.6.1 read a UTF .bib file???
> P.S. If you wonder what BibLaTeX is, nevermind - the question is: how to have
> LyX read a UTF .bib file?
IMO such behaviour is somehow close to correct. LyX do not support
BibLaTeX officially, so if it cannot handle UTF .bib files, it is
compatible with BibTeX.
I may not have right.
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