Bug#9799: bibtex is not 8-bit clean

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

Once upon a time ago Eric Delaunay (delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr) wrote:
(14th of May 1997)

Hi Eric,

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 0.4pl6-7
> 
Hello again, this is the year 2004 and we are at teTeX 2.0.2 (or say
better web2c > 7.3.11).

http://bugs.debian.org/9799

> Bibtex skips non ASCII characters in short citation.
> 
> I attached 3 files to show this behavior:
> 
>  t.tex: a small sample TeX file
>  t.bib: a bibliography that uses 8-bit characters
>  realfullname.bst: a bibliogray style
> 
> Process it by:
>  latex t
>  bibtex t
>  latex t
> 
> result is a page that contains a reference like that:
>   [Knig et al.94]
> instead of
>   [König et al.94]
> 
> In fact, the t.bbl file generated by bibtex skip the o-trema
> character in the \bibitem[] command.
> I would want to know if a 8-bit clean bibtex program is available?
> 
I'm not able to reproduce that bug any more and I guess it is fixed.

texk/web2c/ChangeLog:

2002-11-13  Olaf Weber  <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>

        * bibtex.ch [32,33]: Characters in the range [128..255] would
        be dropped by some of BibTeX's internal functions, like
        purify$.  Allow them to pass through.

Would you be so kind to close it after that long time?

For the Debian teTeX-team,
  Hilmar 
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