[OS X TeX] plea for help with TeX bibliographic databases: the humanities, and unicode

[Roger Hart]

Dear Adam,

My apologies!  You are right. It is only the clipboard pasting that 
fails.

Importing as a file works perfectly, even for Chinese/Japanese/Korean!  
(Perhaps part of the problem I had importing was related to BBEdit, 
which I'm just now trying, and don't always quite understand.)

I think you're right about Endnote most likely using Mac OS Roman 
encoding, since it seems that none of the import and export for their 
"unicode" version 8 actually uses unicode.

So for now I'll import using files. But again, thanks very much for all 
the help, and all your hard work on such a wonderful program.

Best,

Roger



On Apr 13, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Adam Maxwell wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 01:15PM, Roger Hart 
> <rhart at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>> @incollection{
>> Foucault1971,
>>    Author = {Foucault, Michel},
>>    Title = {Nietzsche, la généalogie, l?histoire},
>>    BookTitle = {Hommage à Jean Hyppolite},
>>    Publisher = {Presses Universitaires de France},
>>    Address = {Paris},
>>    Year = {1971} }
>>
>> when pasted into BibDesk, it becomes, field by field, the following:
>>
>> Foucault1971
>>
>> Foucault, Michel
>>
>> Nietzsche, la g?©n?©alogie, l?Äôhistoire
>>
>> Hommage ?? Jean Hyppolite
>>
>> Presses Universitaires de France
>>
>> 1971
>
> I've reproduced this; it's a bug (my fault, even), and is fixed for 
> the next release.  Sorry about that!
>
>> So I have to go in to correct all the garbled characters. I've set all
>> the preferences to be working in UTF-8.
>>
>> I get the same results when I import the file.
>
> If the file came from EndNote (I think you used that?), it's probably 
> in Mac OS Roman encoding; you can use BibDesk's "Open..." dialog from 
> the file menu to choose that encoding, then use the "Export..." option 
> to save it as UTF-8.
>
> Also, I copied the text from  your e-mail, pasted it into a TextEdit 
> window, saved as UTF-8, and it opened just fine in BibDesk.  Only 
> pasting is broken.  Again, my apologies for this problem, and let me 
> know if either of these workarounds fail.
>
> regards,
> Adam
>
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