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

[Kime Philip]

It's probably relevant to remember that biber isn't a bastardisation of bibtex. It's a backend data processor for biblatex. You can't use it as a replacement for bibtex in general. biblatex has always abused bibtex and uses it to produce, effectively, TeX databases rather than typeset output. biber just does a much better job of this for biblatex than bibtex could do (because bibtex wasn't designed for this use case anyway).

PK


On 23 May 2013, at 8:25 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:11:38AM -0700, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> I look forward to the gripes about BibDesk's lack of support
>> for another bastardization of BibTeX :(.
> 
> And there bibtexu which supposedly handles Unicode (though I never used
> it, nor bibtex anyway).
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled

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Dr Philip Kime