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

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

David Nebauer <dav...@sw...> was heard to say:

> Hi Markus,
>
> Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The advantage of making UTF-8 the default encoding at each step in the
> life cycle is you don't have to remember when to specify UTF-8 encoding
> and when not to.  Still, the most important thing is making sure to
> document clearly what the default encoding is at each step so the user
> knows what is happening.
>

This is approximately what I intended to say, but I guess I was too tired to be
as clear as I should. I plan to set all defaults to UTF-8, but users are still
free to configure their systems differently if they have a good reason.

regards,
Markus


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