Package: texlive-publishers Version: 2018.20181214-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The file /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/IEEEtran/IEEEfull.bib contains a symbol `á' in ISO-8859-1 8bit charset: line 23, see `Nicolás Barabino' name. This character breakes biblatex+biber. Recoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 charset fixes the issue. Below is scenario and input file. $ pdflatex test ... $ biber test INFO - This is Biber 2.12 INFO - Logfile is 'test.blg' INFO - Reading 'test.bcf' INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Processing section 0 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'IEEEfull.bib' for section 0 ERROR - Data file '/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/IEEEtran/IEEEfull.bib' cannot be read in encoding 'utf8': Can't decode ill-formed UTF-8 octet sequence <E1> at /usr/share/perl5/File/Slurper.pm line 59. INFO - ERRORS: 1 minimal input file: ################################## \documentclass{article} \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \addglobalbib[datatype=bibtex]{IEEEfull.bib} \begin{document} \cite{bib1} \printbibliography \end{document} ################################## ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7893 Jul 1 2012 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4324 Dec 16 12:16 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 2 19:32 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 14 11:58 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 14 11:58 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST ###################################### Config files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 6 13:40 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 14 11:58 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Apr 17 2012 /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5089 Dec 16 12:16 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat ###################################### Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jun 26 2011 mktex.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 6 13:40 texmf.cnf ###################################### md5sums of texmf.d ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages texlive-publishers depends on: ii tex-common 6.10 ii texlive-base 2018.20181214-1 ii texlive-latex-base 2018.20181214-1 ii texlive-latex-recommended 2018.20181214-1 Versions of packages texlive-publishers recommends: ii texlive-latex-extra 2018.20181214-1 Versions of packages texlive-publishers suggests: ii texlive-publishers-doc 2018.20181214-1 Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1 Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 11.5.4 Versions of packages texlive-publishers is related to: ii tex-common 6.10 ii texlive-binaries 2018.20181214.49410-1 -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: