I think I'll go for the piping option then, which seems to be the easiest way out.
Thanks for the insights, I didn't actually know much about the interplay of context and bibtex until this little problem occured to me... Julian 2011/6/4 Pontus Lurcock <p...@talvi.net> > On Sat 04 Jun 2011, Julian Becker wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with the intricacies and details of UTF8 encoding, > > but is it possible that there is a byte missing from the "ä" which > > has been cut off during the abbreviation process? > > Well, there *is* more than one way to represent ä in UTF-8, but it's > my understanding that anything beyond ASCII is simply not supported by > BibTeX. You can get away with it in fields that just get pasted > verbatim into the output (usually), but the first three letters of the > first author's name are used to construct the key (which is why > ‘Schräger’ worked) so there's no way around using the officially > sanctioned {\"a} form. > > > > unfortunately, I'm using Mendeley Desktop for the management of my > > > bibtex file and I can't seem to be able to influence the way in > > > which it encodes the special characters. > > This is one reason why I still use plain emacs as a bibliography > manager -- sooner or later you need a hack, and that's harder when the > raw BibTeX is hidden or generated. In this case you may need to > put the hack between Mendeley and BibTeX: pipe the file through > ‘sed -e 's/ä/{\\"a}/g'’ or something similar. And/or ask in the Mendeley > support forums, since this is a fairly well-known BibTeX ‘feature’ > so perhaps someone else has had to deal with it there. > > Hope this helps, > > Pont > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Julian Becker Institut für Angewandte Physik, R.123 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Corrensstr. 2/4 48149 Münster / Westfalen Tel. 0251 83-3 61 53 Mob. 0151 599 848 29 e-mail: j_bec...@uni-muenster.de "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for it is the wellspring of life."
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