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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

tags 506689 + wontfix
stop

On 06.02.09 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@web.de) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 18:07 +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi *,

> > > What do people use for the bibliographies nowdays?
> > > 
> > I really, really don't know -- I'm sorry! I'm putting this mail
> > back into the BTS. Frank, Norbert, Ralf, Jan: if you have an
> > answer please post it here. I guess biblatex is not an
> > replacement either...
> 
> No, biblatex works on the formating part, i.e. you no longer have to
> hack BST files in reverse polish notation in order to achive certain
> effects.
> 
> CrossTeX http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/crosstex/ might be a
> possibility, but I haven't tried it myself. I do remember though that
> there has been a discussion on comp.text.tex during the last half year
> or so about utf8 and BibTeX. A search on groups.google.com might be
> useful. 
> 
Final statement: bibtex does actually have not UTF-8 support and
probably won't have it soon. :-(

For now I'm tagging this bug as won't fix, I suggest to close it.

H.
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