On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote:
> On Nov 14 2012 2:45 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> One thing that I had not expected was that biblatex/biber actually
> >> did
> >> not deal gracefully with entries which had honest to god unicode
> >> characters in the fields. I had to o in and clean them all out.
> >> That
> >> was a good exercise though, and I found and fixed a half dozen
> >> problem
> >> entries.
> >>
> >>
> > That's rather strange. One of the main advantages of biber is its
> > capacity
> > to handle unicode. It is in fact the main reason I switched to it a
> > couple
> > of years ago. Are you sure you ran biber with the --utf switch?
>
> After the fact I realized that there is a biblatex switch in jabref,
> and no, I did know about the -utf switch. That explains it (but it was
> still go to go through and clean everything up...
>
>
I got bitten by biber 's default behavior more than once. I still do not
understand why utf is not its default mode, when unicode-dealing is one of
its main selling points. I guess the developers must have had their
reasons...
Cheers,
S.
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