[OS X TeX] Texshop, bibtex and utf-8

[Martin Bergren]

> On 17 Nov 2015, at 16:49 , Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at me.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 00:44 , Martin Bergren <martin.berggren at cs.umu.se> wrote:
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>> No, perhaps predictibly so. Using \cite{Hö03} or other keys with umlauts generates the error ‘Missing \endcsname inserted’. So umlauts in the content field of a tag in the bib file seems to be accepted, but not in the key. The behavior is the same whether a numerical or alphabetical reference style is used. Working example attached.
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> BibTeX cite keys cannot include non-ASCII characters (among other things). Other 7 or 8-bit characters will generally pass through unscathed in the data fields, but may not sort correctly. You can use bibtex8 with some character sets for correct sorting. 
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> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/bibtex8bit
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Great! Then I’ve learned something new today! There are apparently .csf files that defines the sorting for bibtex8. It seems to be biblatex, though, that has the largest selection of such files, for instance for Swedish lexical ordering. Would these work for bibtex as well?




Martin Berggren
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