[TxMt] LaTeX bundle problem

Édouard Gilbert edouard.gilbert at eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr
Tue Jul 3 15:18:05 UTC 2007


Doesn't that concerns only BibTex entry? One could use this good old  
LaTeX encoding for them — \'e, \ss or \"o and other special  
characters. BibDesk even allow automatic and customizable conversion  
of UTF8 characters to such strings.

Le 3 juil. 07 à 16:12, Adam R. Maxwell a écrit :

>
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 05:48, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I understand the problem now. However, how come TextMate can  
>> detect what encoding was used for a file, and the scanner can not ?
>>
>> UTF8 can cause problems with Bibtex (http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ 
>> ~fischer/kbibtex/encoding.html)
>
> See also
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/ 
> 7e406a5c250cc6bc/8aefd925c735c842?lnk=st&q=bibtex+unicode+group% 
> 3Acomp.text.tex&rnum=1&hl=en#8aefd925c735c842
>
> which has a better explanation of the problem(s) of using multibyte  
> encodings with BibTeX.  Sorting is broken, of course, but  
> apparently some BibTeX styles have even worse problems.
>
>> Allan Odgaard a écrit :
>>> On 29. Jun 2007, at 19:39, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, I was not really talking about modifying the code myself. I  
>>>> meant providing more information that you might need. [...]
>>>
>>> The problem is that your source documents are scanned for  
>>> completion candidates in their on-disk state.
>>>
>>> The scanner cannot know what encoding you have used, and so it  
>>> assumes (for good reason) UTF-8.
>>>
>>> But in fact the stuff is malformed, when treated as UTF-8, so TM  
>>> will discard it, when the label completion command tries to  
>>> insert it.
>
> I haven't been following this too closely, but ISTR that cross- 
> reference labels, like TeX command names, are limited to ASCII  
> letters and digits 0-9.  You might get away with accented  
> characters using some encodings, but it would probably break  
> horribly with UTF-8.
>
> -- 
> Adam
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