On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:25:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit. > Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only > bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently > [which is bad]). Well, I just tried adding some characters that definitely are multi-byte (e.g. ค from the thai alphabet) to a test bibtex file. It "worked" with XeTeX in the sense that no error was raised (at least I didnt see any in the console log), and the character was replaced by whitespace (just like when the character is not in the alphabet you're using). With "normal" LaTeX and default encoding, I get a T1 encoding error. With utf8 encoding, I get a "unicode char not set up for use with LaTeX" error. To be honest, my LaTeX suck and I really don't know the internals. A way to tell XeLaTeX to use a different font for non-latin characters in the bibliography would be great. Currently, allowing but not displaying characters is pretty useless (except for those chars that are in the font, which seems to be the case e.g. for european special chars but not for e.g. asian fonts) HTH, Kosta
