Upgrade StorageHow to correctly export accented characters in bib file?
I'm using Zotero to compile my bibliography and TexStudio to write my report in Latex.
My procedure is:
1. Select all references
2. Right-click, select 'Export items...' menu option
3. Then 'Format: BibTex, Character Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)', then 'Ok'
This produces the .bib file.
However, when I generate the bibliography in TexStudio I get errors like:
Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence. ...illar, R.~d., Hodouin, D., and Poulin, �.
This is due to the following text in Zotero and in the .bib file:
author = {Desbiens, A. and Nunez, E. and Villar, R. del and Hodouin, D. and Poulin, É.},
which is the text straight from Zotero for this item.
This is then translated to this text in the .bbl file:
\bibitem[Desbiens et~al., 2008]{desbiens_using_2008}
Desbiens, A., Nunez, E., Villar, R.~d., Hodouin, D., and Poulin, Ã. (2008).
\newblock Using {Process} {Control} to {Increase} the {Energy} {Efficiency} of
{Mineral} and {Metal} {Processing} {Plants}.
\newblock {\em International Journal of Power and Energy Systems}, 28(2).
Note the 'Ã' character here.
I can fix this problem by MANUALLY changing the contents of the bib file to:
Poulin, {\'E}}
But I want to know what I'm doing wrong. Am I using the wrong text encoding, is it even a problem in Zotero export or in fact a problem in TexStudio bibtex compilation?
My procedure is:
1. Select all references
2. Right-click, select 'Export items...' menu option
3. Then 'Format: BibTex, Character Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)', then 'Ok'
This produces the .bib file.
However, when I generate the bibliography in TexStudio I get errors like:
Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence. ...illar, R.~d., Hodouin, D., and Poulin, �.
This is due to the following text in Zotero and in the .bib file:
author = {Desbiens, A. and Nunez, E. and Villar, R. del and Hodouin, D. and Poulin, É.},
which is the text straight from Zotero for this item.
This is then translated to this text in the .bbl file:
\bibitem[Desbiens et~al., 2008]{desbiens_using_2008}
Desbiens, A., Nunez, E., Villar, R.~d., Hodouin, D., and Poulin, Ã. (2008).
\newblock Using {Process} {Control} to {Increase} the {Energy} {Efficiency} of
{Mineral} and {Metal} {Processing} {Plants}.
\newblock {\em International Journal of Power and Energy Systems}, 28(2).
Note the 'Ã' character here.
I can fix this problem by MANUALLY changing the contents of the bib file to:
Poulin, {\'E}}
But I want to know what I'm doing wrong. Am I using the wrong text encoding, is it even a problem in Zotero export or in fact a problem in TexStudio bibtex compilation?
%% Encodage utilisé pour les caractères accentués dans les fichiers
%% source du document. Les gabarits sont encodés en UTF-8. Inutile
%% avec XeLaTeX, qui gère Unicode nativement.
\ifxetex\else \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \fi
The comment roughly translates to:
"Encoding used for accented characters in document source files. Templates are encoded in UTF-8. Useless with XeLaTeX, which supports Unicode natively."
I tried replacing this with \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and it didn't solve the problem.
So, as you suggested, I also tried changing the character encoding when exporting to 'Western' and now it works. The bib file contents now look like this:
author = {Desbiens, A. and Nunez, E. and Villar, R. del and Hodouin, D. and Poulin, {\'E}.},
thanks.