Bibtex Export "Đ" to "\DJ"

nvradke · November 7, 2023

I want to export my library to a .bib file for use with Latex. I have to use natbib with bibtex. One authors name starts with "Đ" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_with_stroke), which biber or natbib (?) is apparently unable to handle. The necessary Latex encoding woud be "\DJ". Thus I tried to use the character encoding "Western" when exporting, but now "Đ" is exported as "?". UTF-8 and UTF-8 without BOM just left "Đ" untouched. So I guess this Character is just not supported by zotero? Are there any workarounds or fixes?

adamsmith · November 7, 2023

Use the Better BibTeX add-on, which supports escaping a wider charset. (though this sounds like a bug in the built-in export: I don't think it should turn things into ?)

nvradke · November 8, 2023

Thank you for the recommendation, that helped a lot!

emilianoeheyns · November 9, 2023

Maybe it exports an invalid unicode codepoint and @nvradke is seeing the unicode replacement character.

nvradke · November 9, 2023

No, the exported character is indeed a "?".