On Jun 26, 2011, at 15:26, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:

> There is another similar issue I have encountered.

I don't think this is really a similar issue.  Violating the syntax of 
TeX/BibTeX, at least as understood by BibDesk, is the problem Cyril was running 
up against...

> Importing from the Library of Congress, characters not in ASCII form are 
> sometimes brought in. Then the database cannot be saved. The error log 
> usually will say what the problems are. If there is more than one, the 
> process of fixing records goes on, as each new problem record is identified 
> during the saving process.

Error log as in system log, or alert sheet?

> I wonder, is there any way to create an alert when non-ASCII characters are 
> in a record, the alert coming up as the record is imported?

Since non-ASCII characters are perfectly valid in BibTeX, there's no way to 
warn of them in advance; there's no problem until you try to save them to disk 
in some encoding that only supports a limited character set.  Even then, the 
character conversion mechanism should make that a rarity.  What characters are 
causing you problems?

> And to provide a little more feedback, for instance, giving the cite key of 
> the problem record?

Has this been rewritten?  The alert I'm thinking of used to give the citekey of 
the offending item.  Since you mention a log, I could be off base.  Regardless, 
though, the problem can't be detected until you try to save data in a specific 
encoding.



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