Replacement of German umlauts with their Tex entities works only SOMETIMES

stefanmeir · September 23, 2011

Hello folks,

I've just found a strange behaviour in Zotero's BibTex export tool when exporting items containing German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) using non-utf8-encodings (in particular ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15):
some umlauts are correctly converted to e.g. \"{u} (which gives ü after running pdflatex & bibtex), others are replaced by e.g. u? (which will stay like that).

Zotero 2.1.10, Firefox 6.0.2 on both Ubuntu and Win7 computers.

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Stefan

ajlyon · September 23, 2011

Sounds like something involving precomposed characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character). If you use only precomposed characters, you shouldn't have this problem.

stefanmeir · September 25, 2011

Thanks a lot ajlyon,
switching to precomposed characters (simply re-entering them) solved all issues.
Best regards