Recently, I had the same problem. BibTeX generated wrong characters or
errors, due to bad encoding. It was complaining that it can not
understand \h{o} as a control sequence! Why? I thought it is a general
way to get accented letters.I have switched in the .bib file from LateX encoding to UTF8 and then to my local ISO8859-2 encoding. The last switch solved the problem. LyX file has UTF8 encoding. I have just read the other e-mails. When I finish with the current, writing I will also try biber. Alex Stefano Franchi írta: > Problem solved, but I am even more confused than before. > > I did install biber and tried it out (after a rather unpleasant time spent > fighting with perl dependencies..). The problem remained. > > As Richard guessed, there was a problem with the encoding of the LyX file. > Switching to Unicode UTF* in the Document>>Settings>>Language pane solved all > the problems. After the switch to UTF8, the references were formatted > correctly, both by standard bibtex and by biber. > > I am happy but confused. UTF8 (for bib files) should not be supported by > bibtex and Lyx (since it just calls bibtex). Yet it works. I am wondering if > there is some magic going on behind the scenes. > > > Cheers, > > S. > > > > > On Friday 09 October 2009 07:35:32 am rgheck wrote: >> On 10/09/2009 01:02 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: >>> Thanks Richard, >>> >>> I think I understand better now. I suppose I'll have to try out biber >>> (I have switched to BibLatex already) already and check the encoding of >>> the LyX file. >> Let me know how biber goes. If it works well, we'll add it to the list >> of BibTeX options. In 2.0/1.7, or whatever it is going to be, you can >> select which bib-file processor you want to use. At the moment, it's >> bibtex and bibtex8, with a "custom" option as well. >> >> rh >> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> Stefano >>> >>> On Thursday 08 October 2009 05:09:42 pm you wrote: >>>> On 10/08/2009 05:55 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> is there any special trick to using a .bib file encoded as UTF-8 with >>>>> LyX/Latex? If there is, I would certainly appreciate knowing about >>>>> it... >>>>> >>>>> Here is my problem/use-case: >>>>> >>>>> I use Jabref as my bib files editor. After inserting a reference which >>>>> contained the character Ž (Latin capital Z with caron), Jabref >>>>> suggested I switched the encoding to UTF-8 because the current one >>>>> (8859-1, I suppose), did not contain the requested character. I >>>>> accepted the kind offer. Alas, now all the references containing >>>>> diacritic marks are screwed up in the Latex output. for instance >>>>> Schöpfungs- has become Schöpfungs- and so on. >>>>> >>>>> Help or pointers to approriate documentation greatly appreciated. I am >>>>> sure the day will come when I will master these encoding issues. >>>>> Unfortunately I do not seem to be there yet. >>>> It sounds like there may be a couple issues here. >>>> >>>> First, unless I'm mistaken, standard BibTeX simply does not support >>>> UTF-8, or any other sort of mutli-byte encoding. Perhaps this has >>>> changed, but Philip Lehman wrote just a year and a bit ago: "In contrast >>>> to what a lot of users think, it is not and has never been possible to >>>> use UTF-8 in bib files. Neither traditional Bibtex nor Bibtex8 support >>>> multibyte encodings such as UTF-8. If it seems to work with some files, >>>> it only does so by chance." And because BibLaTeX also relies upon BibTeX >>>> for some of its work, this won't change even there. >>>> >>>> There's also this project, though: >>>> http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/. Basically, it replaces BibTeX >>>> with a program written in Perl. I haven't tried it, but it should be >>>> possible to use it with LyX if you're also using BibLaTeX. It may even >>>> work without it. I don't know. >>>> >>>> The weirdness with Schöpfungsis probably due to a conflict between the >>>> encoding of your document and the encoding of the .bib file. E.g, the >>>> document isn't in UTF-8. >>>> >>>> Richard
