[tex-live] Bug in bibtex8

[Arne Jørgensen]

Hello,

I just recently discovered that the bibtex8 in TeX Live has been
extended with kpathsearch possibilities and that renewed my interest
in this program.

I however discovered a bug in its 8-bit mode.

I (actually someone I helped) have a bibliography with the two authors
Hallvard Lie and Knut Liestøl.

With bibtex and bibtex8 in 7-bit mode Hallvard Lie is correctly sorted
before Knut Liestøl, but in 8-bit mode they are sorted the other way
around.

The bug is that the space between the names is assigned the highest
possible sorting weight.

This small patch add a sorting weight of 0 to the space character and
also makes it possible to give the space character your own sorting
order in the .csf file (if you write it as ^^20).

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Attached is also a small LaTeX document and bibliography database that
reveals the bug.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk>
DK-TUG / Danish TeX Users Group <http://www.tug.dk/>

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