On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:

> Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef
> > bibtex database is UTF8 encoded.
> >
> > But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ?
>
> Neither bibtex nor bibtex8 supports utf8, so you have to chose another
> encoding (a single-byte encoding such as latin9) for your bib file.
>

Thanks - I'll look into that.

In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the
file?




>
> If you really need utf8 in your bib file, you need to use biblatex-biber,
> which is still beta software, though.
>
> See
> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#encoding
>
> Jürgen
>



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