[Bug 209872] Re: bibtool does not convert accented characters to lowercase

Louis-Dominique Dubeau ldd at lddubeau.com
Thu Jul 9 16:15:29 UTC 2009


New development: on Ubuntu 9.04, bibtool will crash while trying to
process the file I attached to illustrate the problem.

Right, I missed the part of the documentation which says that bibtool
won't work with code points greater than 127 but I'd expect a tool which
has this limitation to do something like:

if char > 127, then fail graciously by printing an error message and
exiting with a non-zero status

Unfortunately, the current behavior is undetermined.

As for supporting other encodings, I would suggest supporting Unicode
(in addition to what is currently supported) but not other encodings:
one can always use tools like recode to convert to Unicode, then process
the file with bibtool and then use recode again to convert to whatever
encoding the user desires.

(BTW, using recode to convert a Unicode BibTeX file to LaTeX encoding
(e.g. recode utf8..latex biblio.bib) does not produce good results.)

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bibtool does not convert accented characters to lowercase
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