BibDesk tries various encodings for external file groups, though not the one from your preferences. It tries UTF-8 before Windows Latin 1, so if it's UTF-8 it should use that. If it doesn't, there should be some characters that are not UTF-8, or the download messes thing up.
Christiaan On 20 Sep 2008, at 3:12 PM, Mathias Hofmann wrote: > How can I set the character encoding for an external file group? > > In Bibdesk (version 1.3.18), I used the "external file group" feature > to "subcribe" to a URL (http://www.bibsonomy.org/bib/group/inain). > This is a generated bibtex-file from a (collaborative) bibliography > database. My browser reports it to be UTF-encoded. Saving it and > manually importing it into Bibdesk (which is set to open/export using > UTF8 encoding) works fine. > > However, the entries of the external file group's items appear to have > a wrong encoding. It looks as if Bibdesk would take the data to be > encoded as Windows Latin 1. > > Weird. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
