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

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

Hi David,

David Nebauer writes:
 > I'd like to focus on this point again.  I personally allow refdb to=20=

 > generate the citekey for me, mainly because it will automatically ap=
pend=20
 > 'a', 'b', etc. if there is danger of duplication.  Automatically=20
 > stripping non-ascii characters from authors with foreign characters =
will=20
 > lead to some unusual results.  A recent publication from our old=20
 > workhorse 'H=E4=DFler' might produce the citekey 'Hler2006'.
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I've tried to resolve this problem by running the citekeys through an
iconv conversion (from UTF-8 to ASCII with transliteration switched
on). Only then invalid characters are stripped from the strings. I
hope this will improve the automatically created citation keys.

iconv uses a latex-style transliteration of umlauts and other
non-ASCII characters. E.g. our beloved 'H=E4=DFler' is converted to
'H"assler'. RefDB has to strip the '"' from the latter as it must not
appear in XML attribute values, hence you'll end up with 'Hassler2006'
instead of the abovementioned 'Hler2006'. It is still not the correct
German transliteration, which would call for 'Haessler2006', but I
think we're close enough without having to hand-code a boatload of
special cases.


regards,
Markus

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