Re: [Refdb-devel] latex bibliographies with multiple databases

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Markus Hoenicka writes:
 > 2) RIS input
 > We'd have to educate users to author their RIS datasets in UTF-8, and
 > to run RIS data from web sources (like Pubmed) through iconv before
 > adding them to RefDB. All it takes is to set the default input
 > encoding of refdbd for RIS data to UTF-8 (see above). Currently there
 > are no provisions to translate entities or LaTeX commands, but if used
 > correctly there should be no need to use such hacks. The result is, as
 > above, plain Unicode.
 > 

Actually we can still use ISO-8859-1 or whatever as the RIS input
format as refdbd internally converts it to UTF-8 if the database uses
this encoding. Forcing UTF-8 for RIS data actually makes only sense if
people use both bibtex and RIS data.

regards,
Markus

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