<div dir="ltr">Thank you all for all your help on my query about full Unicode support and tex4ht. Thanks to your help, I now have a workflow which produces what I want, including Unicode in the bibliography (which I achieve by running CV Radhakrishnan's script on my .bib file as well as my main .tex file, as Ulrike Fischer suggested I try):<div>
<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">perl <a href="http://utf2ent.pl">utf2ent.pl</a> word.converter.tex > word.converter-ent.tex<br>
perl <a href="http://utf2ent.pl">utf2ent.pl</a> FILEPATH/alexhistory.bib > word.converter.alexhistory-ent.bib<br>mk4ht oolatex word.converter-ent "xhtml, charset=utf-8" -utf8<br>biber word.converter-ent<br>mk4ht oolatex word.converter-ent "xhtml, charset=utf-8" -utf8</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>The outputted Word document is almost perfect. The only trouble is that Unicode characters in the footnotes produced by biblatex have a different font size for some mysterious reason. But this is easily fixed by selecting all the footnote text and assigning it the same font size!</div>
<div><br></div><div style>So again, thank you for making it possible for me to remain in the TeX world as I write!</div><div style><br></div><div style>Alex</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Ulrike Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:news3@nililand.de" target="_blank">news3@nililand.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Am Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:21:53 -0800 schrieb Alexandre Roberts:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> Unicode in my BibTeX entries: while Unicode in my main text and footnotes<br>
> now shows up perfectly, the Unicode characters in my BibTeX entries still<br>
> don't make it through. (step 4) Is there a way to get this Unicode to make<br>
> it as well without modifying my .bib file?<br>
<br>
</div>I don't have the time to test, but you probably will have to run the<br>
perl script on the bbl-file.<br>
<br>
It is also possible to tell biber to recode unicode chars when<br>
writing the bbl. The output format can be chosen freely (but it<br>
takes some time to set up the reencoding vector):<br>
<br>
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/biblatex-biber/feature-requests/23/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/biblatex-biber/feature-requests/23/</a><br>
<br>
Btw: The workflow sounds as if it would gain a lot if used together<br>
with lualatex instead of xelatex: lualatex could convert the unicode<br>
chars on-the-fly in a callback when reading the files.<br>
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--<br>
Ulrike Fischer<br>
<a href="http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/</a><br>
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