2014-06-12 0:53 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: > I think this is a problem with the default configuration, at least on > linux. You really need to use Bibtex8 for the bibliogrophy generation. This > is NOT the default. The default is bibtex which doesn't have any unicode > support because it actually was written in the 1980's. bibtex8 should > really be the default by now on any system. Also the language support in > lyx should default to utf-8. It would make life much easier to not have to > change these around so much and avoid these sorts of bugs. I also should > point out that pdflatex does an excellent job at catching these problems. > XeTex I think uses utf-8 by default which is why it worked when you > switched from pdflatex to XeTex. >
Note that bibtex8 does not support unicode either (but only 8-bit encodings, as the name implies). There is one experimental unicode version of bibtex, bibtexu, but I do not think it works reliable enough already. For real unicode support, you must use biblatex with biber. Jürgen
