control: tag -1 wontfix upstream
Harri Kiiskinen <[email protected]> writes: > biber does not seem to accept the character "(" in a bibtex key. This > is rather irritating, as the old bibtex did accept it along some other > non-letter characters. This may of course be a conscious choice of the > developers, but in any case it breaks the backwards compatibility of > the databases (and for me, a lot of documents) and perhaps should be > investigated. In older versions of biber there was an option to select > a different type of parser, which in fact did circumvent the problem, > but this option has obviously been removed. I forwarded your request to the libbtparse maintainer [1]. Unfortunately it looks like your problem will not be fixed in libbtparse. I don't know it's worth persuing upstream with biber or not. Maybe we could at least ask biber to document their (inherited) incompatibility? [1]: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125914
