On 2009-05-11, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Monday 11 May 2009 13:16:44 schrieb Dominik Waßenhoven:
> so I should export my bib file from Jabref in ISO-8599-1 for bibtex. this depends (see below). The save bet would be to export clean ASCII which LyX/LaTeX/BibTeX always understand and use LaTeX constructs for non-ASCII characters. > And Lyx accepts the ISO-8599-1 code? This depends on the setting of Document>Settings>Language>Encoding. LyX just passes it to LaTeX. But the encoding should match the rest of the document. As your *.bib database might be used with different documents, possibly in different encodings, the save bet is to use ASCII only. > What does Lyx do if it gets non- ISO-8599-1 coded characters in the aux-file? In the worst case, it does not produce an output file without any visible error message. >> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> > so lyx expects the ISO-8599-1 encoding of the references, and not utf8? >> No, LyX could handle utf8, but BibTeX can't. See the explanation by >> Philipp Lehman on comp.text.tex, Message-ID: >> <5c8mclf2uqc9...@mid.uni-berlin.de> >> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/8aefd925c735c842) > He talks about UTF8, not utf8, as I see. This should not make any difference. Capitalization in emails is sometimes inconsistent. Günter
