Bug#506689: (fwd) Bug#506689: texlive-lang-cyrillic: gost71u BibTeX style is not fully compatible with UTF-8

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 03.02.09 Maksym Polyakov (polyama@yahoo.com) wrote:

Dear Maksym,

Sorry for the late answer.

> As far as I know, BibTeX8 does not support UTF-8. (Please correct
> me if i am wrong). So, patch provides only partial workaround and
> problem cannot be solved without proper UTF-8 support in BibTeX8.
> 
Thanks for your answer! No, I'm not aware of UTF-8 support in bibTeX
either. I think the only thing we can do is to close that request and
hope for better times, when $BIBTEX is aware of UTF-8.

H.
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