Re: iconv-error with encoding of mysql-database

Dominik Reusser writes:
 > Hi Markus,
 > here is the input data. I ended up converting the database encoding to UTF-8 
 > and got the data imported that way. 
 > I hope you can reproduce the error.
 > 

I suspect there is a configuration problem on your end. file says
about your input data:

ISO-8859 English text, with very long lines

The file contains a couple of characters outside the ASCII range. Now
if your RefDB installation is set up to expect the input RIS data
being UTF-8 (this has been the default for a while), then it is quite
possible that libiconv complains about unexpected character sequences.

Your options:

- set up RefDB to use ISO-8859-1 for incoming RIS data by setting the
  fromencoding variable in refdbcrc appropriately

- use the -E ISO-8859-1 option with addref to specify the encoding on
  the command line

- convert your input data to UTF-8 using iconv before adding them to
  RefDB

- if you insist on having a ISO-8859-1 database, you need to configure
  refdbd as well. You need to set both db_encoding and in_encoding in
  refdbdrc to ISO-8859-1

I've noticed another problem with your input data which is entirely
unrelated. The author names use a format which RefDB cannot digest,
and quite a few authors lack the first names. As you enquired about
bib2ris in the past, I suspect the bad quality of the input data has a
lot to do with that tool. If this is the case, I'd like to have a look
at your bibtex input data too in order to improve bib2ris.

regards,
Markus

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