On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Rainer M Krug wrote: > > Thanks - I'll look into that. > > > > In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in > > the file? > > A decent editor will inform you about that. > > However, using recode as described on the wiki should just work. > usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib adding verbose: rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ recode -dv u8..ltex myfile.bib Request: UTF-8..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Shrunk to: UTF-8..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Recoding myfile.bib... failed: Invalid input in step `UTF-8..ISO-8859-1' rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ I assume, that some strange characters are in the input file? Any ideas on how I can fix this? Rainer > Jürgen > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com