martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-bin > Version: 3.0-17 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/bibtex > > bibtex cannot deal with Unicode .bib files. It would be nice if this > were possible, unicode is kind of a standard by now...
bibtex in tetex is not even 8bit-clean. There's an 8bit-clean bibtex implementation in texlive, but even there it is not the default. Probably by a reason. I know of one attempt to reimplement bibtex for Unicode support, and additionally with the possibility to switch scripts and languages on a per-entry basis, mlbibtex. But this seems to be a rather academic project - I heard a talk where its author nicely explained its great planned features and showed some commandline examples on-screen, but when someone asked the question "How well is it usable as a replacement for bibtex, and can one download a version for testing?" he didn't even understand the question, let alone answer it... So I wouldn't expect it to be a usable alternative in the foreseeable future. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
