Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error regarding encoding

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

Did you reopen the fiel using the encoding with which you saved it (that is,
UTF-8)? If not, try that first (use the Open... menu item, Cmd-O, instead of
double-clicking or dropping). If you did not proceed with opening the file
with the incorrect encoding, you probably did not loose any data. If you
want to be able to save the file using ASCII encoding you should modify the
Annote or Abstract field of one of the items (you can see which one by
trying to open with ASCII encoding, and double-clicking the Syntax error
line ion the table of errors you get). The warnings are not important, the
problem is the syntax error in line 196 (probably an non-ascii accented
character).

Christiaan


On 1/31/07, Christian Burk <mai...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Yesterday I edited something (cant remember exactly what it was) and
> BD prompted me with the message that it can not save the file with
> ASCII encoding, instead I should save the file with utf8 - and I did so.
> Today I reopend the fileand gor an error that is not possible to open
> it because of the encoding.
>
> -------Here are the error messages-------
> masterthesis.bib                196             error           Unable to
> convert characters to
> encoding Western (ASCII)
>
> masterthesis.bib                196             error           Syntax
> error in "(null)"
>
> masterthesis.bib                611             warning         found " at
> brace-depth zero in string
> (TeX accents in BibTeX should be inside braces)
>
> masterthesis.bib                647             warning         found " at
> brace-depth zero in string
> (TeX accents in BibTeX should be inside braces)
>
> masterthesis.bib                1815            warning         found " at
> brace-depth zero in
> string (TeX accents in BibTeX should be inside braces)
>
> masterthesis.bib                3034            warning         found " at
> brace-depth zero in
> string (TeX accents in BibTeX should be inside braces)
>
> masterthesis.bib                Unknown line number
> warning         no capitalized tokens
> before first comma in name "de-Melo, F J Q"
>
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> I backed up the file yesterday night, so data will be lost. But what
> would be the right procedure to get the file reopened with losing any
> entries?
>
>
> Thanks
> Christian