Dear Stian, The problem with this is not with BibDesk nor BibTeX. The problem is with Google Scholar or whoever is responsible for that silly BibTeX export that violates BibTeX syntax rules. Unfortunately we have these days many people who are responsible for such BibTeX export services who bother not the least to carefully look into the syntax rules when they implement such an export service. One has therefore to give them feedback and ask them to fix their mistakes and that they learn the basics of coding including what ASCII code is. Shouldn't be too much to ask from a programer, should it?
Regards, Andreas ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 595-4050 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 09/03/2012, at 16:52 , Stian Håklev wrote: The reason is that BibDesk does not accept non-ASCII characters in the citekey (mittelbach1962röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung), but both Google Scholar and dx.doi.org<http://dx.doi.org/> generate BibTeX with UTF8 citekeys. I personally made a small script to "clean" bibtex before importing it - regenerate citekey, remove keyword field (I hate when I get 8 new keyword categories just from importing one article). I raised this as a bug report, but the developers closed it because the BibTeX specs (designed in 1985) do not allow for UTF8 citekeys. (Personally I think there should be an option to disregard the citekey completely and generate a new one according to your own preferences). You can see the bug I filed here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3489467&group_id=61487&atid=497426 The code I'm using to clean up citations is here https://github.com/houshuang/folders2web/blob/master/utility-functions.rb#L68-78 - note that it's part of a bigger project, so it might require a bit of work to extract. Stian On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:26, bestenborstel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear all, I always asked Google Scholar to show me the reference for BibTeX in Safari. Then I simply copied and pasted into my library. With 1.5.7 this seem not possible anymore. Bibdesk says not supported file format. Syntax wrong. It is only: @article{mittelbach1962röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung, title={Zur R{\"o}ntgenkleinwinkelstreuung verd{\"u}nnter kolloider Systeme. VII. Die Berechnung der Streukurven von dreiachsigen Ellipsoiden}, author={Mittelbach, P. and Porod, G.}, journal={Acta Phys. Austriaca}, volume={15}, pages={122--147}, year={1962} } Could somebody point me in the right direction please? Using the data base in that case does not work as the reference is not recognised. Regards G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users -- http://reganmian.net/blog -- Random Stuff that Matters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/_______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
