[tex-live] TL2013: Biber not working with labels containing accents

[Philip Kime]

No, this was a biber problem with a change in version 1.6. biber uses
a hacked libbtparse which allows UTF-8 passthrough for citekeys and
field values (and has done for years). It's fixed in version 1.7.

PK

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Dr Philip Kime

On 23 May 2013, at 05:11 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2013, at 02:17 , Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a change in Biber or one linked to TL2013, but
>> with the current pretest I find that Biber doesn't find the database
>> entry with example
>>
>> %!TeX program = LuaLaTeX
>
> Is this specific to LuaLaTeX? My understanding from TLC2 is
> that non-ASCII characters are not allowed in TeX labels, which
> is why libbtparse chokes on them in cite keys.
>
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{filecontents}
>> \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
>> @ARTICLE{Savéant2012,
>
> I look forward to the gripes about BibDesk's lack of support
> for another bastardization of BibTeX :(.
>
> --
> adam
>