Re: Database Type

"Markus Hoenicka" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Rich Shepard writes:
 >    Thank you. I read in the tutorial last evening that the RIS format requires
 > an explicit encoding, too, while risx has that as the first line of the data
 > file. I see that both refdb and the main reference database are encoded UTF8,
 > but that's not the default encoding on my system. Regardless, it works.
 > 

As long as refdbd can determine the encoding of the input data, there
is no problem as it will convert the data on the fly. refdbdrc sets
the input encoding of RIS files to ISO-8859-1 by default as this
covers both US and most European needs.

regards,
Markus

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