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UTF-8 encoding problems only with some chars

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Seb
2008-11-21
2012-11-09
  • Seb

    Seb - 2008-11-21

    Hi,

    I've been using UTF-8 encoding with Jabref for several years now without problems. However, I found that some characters don't fare well with bibtex, as I just found out. One of my entries has the letter Ø (hopelly the web interface won't mangle this); the norwegian capital "o" with a slash through the middle of it. Bibtexing a *.tex source with this citation fails with the error:

    ERROR: Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:\303 not set up for use with LaTeX.

    I have "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}" in my preamble, as I've always had without problems. Other similar characters don't produce the error; in fact, the lowercase version of the character above goes through fine. Any advice appreciated.

    Seb

     
    • Morten Omholt Alver

      This sounds like a problem with your LaTeX setup - I often have these characters in my own documents without problems. What happens if you try to include an Ø directly in your LaTeX document?

       
    • Seb

      Seb - 2008-11-21

      The LaTeX documents compile fine if the Ø is included directly, and neither are any problems encountered if the character is placed directly in the *.bbl file. I'm using the texlive packages from Debian sid.

       
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