#38 cyrillic bibentries: first author name is absent

[biber-tester]

The problem is that the first cyrillic author-name in the bibliography is not recognized.
Here ist the report from editor:

Could not find or check module 'IPC::Run' [THIS MAY BE A PROBLEM!] at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/IPC/Cmd.pm line 124
Wide character in print at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Log/Log4perl/Appender/Screen.pm line 41. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Biber/Internals.pm line 39. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Biber/Internals.pm line 82. bibfile.bib, line 25, warning: found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) bibfile.bib, line 34, syntax error: at end of input, expected end of entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@")
Process exited normally

biber.log:
[0] biber:148> INFO - === Biber version 0.5.3
[0] biber:149> INFO - === Mi Mai , 2010, 15:30:02
[1] Biber.pm:285> INFO - Reading latex.aux
[2] Biber.pm:437> INFO - Reading latex.bcf
[84] Biber.pm:355> INFO - Found 4 citekeys in aux file
[131] Biber.pm:601> INFO - Processing bibtex file bibfile.bib
[168] BibTeX.pm:178> WARN - Couldn't determine Last Name for name "Ефимов, Виктор"
[191] Biber.pm:890> WARN - Invalid format of field 'urldate' - ignoring field in entry 'DStGB.o.J.'
[193] Biber.pm:1405> WARN - Unavailable locale en_US.utf8
[195] Biber.pm:1405> WARN - Unavailable locale en_US.utf8
[209] BBL.pm:379> INFO - Output to latex.bbl

Files are appended: latex.tex & bibfile.bib in a zip-file.
Thank you for your job.

[biber-tester]

[Philip Kime]

I have no problem with this at all - your .bib file has two errors in it - I have attached a corrected version. Please try this. If it does not work, please let me know the output of this:

perl -MText::BibTeX -e "print \"$Text::BibTeX::VERSION\n\";"

[Philip Kime]

Corrected .bib file

[biber-tester]

In this pdf is the error marked

[biber-tester]

Hi,
the error stays, is my input right?

perl c:\biblatex-biber-v0.5.3\bin\biber -u -U %

I have a pdf-file attached with error marked.

perl -MText::BibTeX -e "print \"$Text::BibTeX::VERSION\n\";"
gives : 0.43

[Philip Kime]

Can you attach the .bbl file and also the biber.log file?

[biber-tester]

[biber-tester]

[biber-tester]

The files are ATTACHed

[Philip Kime]

Something is wrong with your Text::BibTeX installation - I have no problems with your example on Windows and OSX. Which version of Strawberry perl are you using? Can you please try re-installing Text::BibTeX with:

perl -MCPAN -e "force install Text::BibTeX"

and attach the screen output so I can see the test results for Text::BibTeX?

[biber-tester]

Hallo,
thank you, i have a new perl version (Strawberry Perl 5.10.1.1)
Here ist the output of "perl -MCPAN -e "force install Text::BibTeX"":

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user>perl -MCPAN -e "force install Text::BibTeX"
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Database was generated on Tue, 04 May 2010 11:50:04 GMT
Updating database file ...

Gathering information from index files ...
Obtaining current state of database ...
Populating database tables ...
Done!
Text::BibTeX is up to date (0.43).

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I can try to install Strawberry perl & biber on my notebook with win7.
Kann you pleace explain how I do it right (algorithm or succession of rigt steps)
By the last (this) insatallation I had problems with it, spezialy with biber, Text::BibTeX and other modules were not found.
I have used the instructions from readme, but had problems especioly with integration of Text::BibTeX, that I have downloded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/Text-BibTeX%20for%20windows/0.38/Text-BibTeX-0.38-perl-5.10.zip/download
In the README of biber package stays:
"Unzip the file, and follow the instructions in the file README.txt."
But it's no Raedme file or other instructions in this Text::BibTeX-package.
Sorry, my english is rather bad, can you understand what I mean?

[Philip Kime]

Did you try to install the 0.38 version of Text::BibTeX? This is an old version which does not work so well with UTF8 encoded names. You should try to manual remove Text::BibTeX completely from you Perl lib tree and try to install again. If you don't know how to do this, please try a new installation, as you suggest. First, install Perl, then

perl -MCPAN -e "install Config::AutoConf"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Capture::Tiny"
perl -MCPAN -e "install ExtUtils::CBuilder"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Text::BibTeX"

Then install Biber:

perl Build.PL
Build installdeps
Build test
Build install

[Philip Kime]

I'm going to close this for now as it looks like an installation problem.