Re: encoding bib-files: ACSII or UTF-8

On So, 2008-03-09 at 00:24 +0000, Fr=E9d=E9ric Gobry wrote:
> Hi,
> =

> >  I am during incorporation of papers from sources where I have to write
> >  and copy paste references. I noticed while copying/pasting abstracts
> >  from pdf from a journal "American Zoologist" that pybliographer could
> >  show characters like arrows, some kind of double apostrophes, long
> >  dashes (m-dash), but that these could not be saved into the bib-file.
> >
> >  Is this bug or feature. I know that bib-files are strictly textfiles,
> >  but do they by definition be coded in ascii or could utf-8 also be a
> >  possibility?
> =

> pyblio has been historically using Latin-1. This is not a limitation
> of the BibTeX format itself, it's mostly due to code limitations.
> =

> I've been playing with a replacement for the pyblio BibTeX parser in
> C, using the one written in python that is available in pyblio-core
> 1.3. I haven't had the time to complete this, and I'm looking for
> volunteers to help out. This code will be helpful both to alleviate
> the current limitations of the parser, and also as a general BibTeX
> tweaking tool.
> =

> Let me know if you are interested in working on this.
> =


It would be a pleasure to test improvements. I am good a writing and
reading things, I can manage a large data library but to write code in C
or anything like, is out-of-reach. And being already 55 yrs old, it is
too late to change this lack of skill.

BTW: Do you know why pybliographer on Debian unstable is still 1.29? I
downloaded a 1.3.2_1 Deb-package from experimental which was full of
errors and did not install the program, in the bin-folder only one
program called recodec is found. I am confused. =


Bernhard


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