Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unable to open bibdesk unicode file

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On 11/28/06, Stefano Franchi <s.f...@au...> wrote:
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> On 28 Nov, 2006, at 2:09 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
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> >
> > On Nov 27, 2006, at 08:30, Stefano Franchi wrote:
> >
> >> I am facing a major problem:
> >>
> >> I saved my working bib file with UTF-8 encoding, and now BibDesk
> >> refuses to open it. If I just double-click on it, I get an alert:
> >>
> >>   *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
> >
> > This is an encoding conversion failure.  An error message is displayed
> > in recent nightly builds, but those don't work on 10.3.9 (we'll
> > release a 1.2.11 that fixes it on 10.3.9, though).  You need to quit
> > BibDesk after this happens, since it's in an inconsistent state.
> >
> >> If I open it from the Open file dialog and select the the Unicode
> >> (UTF-8) encoding, the file opens with 0 publications.
> >
> > If you quit and relaunch BibDesk and then open it from File->Open
> > using UTF-8 encoding, does the problem still occur?
> >
>
> Yes, I tried that and it didn't work. However, after some more or less
> random experimentation I was able to recover the file by opening it
> with a different encoding---ISO Latin--and saving it again in that
> encoding. Now it works fine. I basically tried to open it with
> different encodings until I found one that worked. I may be the case
> that I actually saved the file in that encoding and thought I had saved
> it with UTF-8. However, the file itself, when opened in TextEdit, said
> "%% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8) " in the preamble.
> Moreover, saving the file again (after its recovery) with UTF-8,
> closing and reopening does not give any problem.
>
> In short, I am clueless about what happened, but happy that the problem
> has disappeared. As an infamous Italian politician once said, "Problems
> are never solved, they  dissolve themselves." For once, I agree.
>
> Cheers,
>
> S.
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> > Adam
> >
> >


Could you have opened the file with another editor, s.a. TextEdit, and saved
it from there using ISO Latin?

Christiaan