Unicode in `@string` macros?

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Closed this issue a year ago · 3 comments

I have a Biblatex file /tmp/basic.bib like this:

@string{P = {Pöblisher}}

@article{key,
  author    = {Authors},
  title     = {Title},
  publisher = P
}

When I run it through biber, I end up with this in /tmp/basic_bibertool.bib:

@STRING{P = "PÃ¶blisher"}

@ARTICLE{key,
  AUTHOR = {Authors},
  PUBLISHER = P,
  TITLE = {Title},
}

Note that the "ö" in the original @string has been garbled. I would have expected biber to not touch the encoding of @string here.

I've tried with Biber 2.18, and also with bin/biber from the dev branch here (https://github.com/plk/biber/blob/d08549cfd5882ce6bbe79eb6d7267ebf2188029e/bin/biber), both with various combinations of -u and -U.

Answer 1 · 2022-11-11T13:18:27.000Z

Perfect, that fixes it: perl -I lib/ ./bin/biber --tool /tmp/basic.bib; cat /tmp/basic_bibertool.bib:

@STRING{P = "Pöblisher"}

@ARTICLE{key,
  AUTHOR = {Authors},
  PUBLISHER = P,
  TITLE = {Title},
}

Thanks a lot by the way for this wonderful tool!

Answer 2 · 2022-11-11T14:08:39.000Z

Thanks for confirming. I'll update the DEV version binaries later tonight.

Answer 3 · 2022-11-11T20:59:00.000Z

This was indeed a bug, fixed in 2.19 dev branch and also in binaries in the development folder in sourceforce: