[XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

[Karljurgen Feuerherm]

Hello Gildas,

I had tried that and it didn't work; I seem to recall that according to the manual that forces Bibtex8. However, some updates got past the problem.

(See next message.)

Thanks!

K

>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM, in message
<20101112045743.GA195 at gildasmini.local>, Gildas Hamel <gweltaz at ucsc.edu> wrote:

> * Karljurgen Feuerherm (kfeuerherm at wlu.ca) wrote:
>   
>   |>  I wish to use Biblatex, and the bib file must be Unicode to accommodate 
> all the characters that will appear there. I understand that I have to use 
> Biber as a backend to have a Unicode bib file, and on p40 of the Biblatex 
> manual, I read that in XeTeX I need 
> \usepackage[bibencoding=inputenc]{biblatex}. However, this causes the 
> compiler to complain that I haven't loaded inputenc.
>   |>  
>   |>  On the other hand, if I load inputenc, the compiler tells me I 
> shouldn't do that as it could lead to problems, since XeTeX is natively 
> UTF-8....
>  
> I load it with bibencoding=utf8, as in:
> 
> \documentclass[11pt,openany]{memoir}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,
> 			Numbers=OldStyle]
> 				{Hoefler Text} % TeX Gyre Pagella, 
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{french}
> \setotherlanguages{greek,english}
> \usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
> \usepackage[backend=biber,bibencoding=utf8,notes]{biblatex-chicago}
> \bibliography{history}
> \begin{document}
> \frontmatter
> \mainmatter
> Testing...
> 
> \backmatter
> \printbibliography
> \printindex
> \end{document}
> 
> HTH,
> -- gildas
> 
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