Special characters not converted correctly

[Nick Bart]

Some special characters do not seem to be converted correctly.

biblatex file (utf-8):

    Title = {Testing em-dash —, en-dash –, d/s curly quotes “” ‘’, ellipsis …, d/s guillemets «» ‹›, and a few accented chars áàâäåæ},

biblatex2xml output:

<titleInfo>
    <title>Testing em-dash —, en-dash –, d/s curly quotes “” ‘’, ellipsis 
, d/s guillemets «» ‹›, and a few accented chars áàâÀåÊ</title>
</titleInfo>

[Chris Putnam]

The current default input character set is iso8859-1. If your input file is utf8-encoded unicode, then you need to use the "-i unicode" command line switch.

The default output for MODS is utf8-encoded unicode, and the default output for the xml2XXX converters is iso8859-1.

The defaults will switch to all utf8-encoded unicode pretty soon, but not in the 4.16 timeframe. When that happens I will be bumping the major version number to 5 to reflect the change in the user interface.

[Nick Bart]

Thank you. My mistake assuming everything is in utf8 today.