Grant Jacobs wrote: > Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies > at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with > diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to > PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be > the case with a very large number of European, etc., author's names > and so on.
This is a BibTeX limitation. BibTeX is an old beast, the most recent release still predates the advent of unicode. Fact is that bibtex cannot deal with unicode (or any other multibyte encoding, for that matter) at all. There's noting that LyX can do here. You need to use another encoding for the bib file, such as latin1, and insert the non-supported characters by means of the respective macros. A decent bib file editor, such as JabRef or pybliographic, should actually handle this for you. > If this is "how it is meant to be" or "the way it is", *please* add > some information to this effect in the tutorial and user guide or > somewhere prominent, so that users needing this can "quit early" and > look for another another solution. You are right, this needs to be documented in the UserGuide, sec. 6.5.2. CC:ing the documentation list. Jürgen PS.: please open a new thread for new topics.
