Bug#382075: bibtex fails to handle unicode .bib files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 382075 texlive-binaries
stop

On 08.08.06 martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> bibtex cannot deal with Unicode .bib files. It would be nice if this
> were possible, unicode is kind of a standard by now...
> 
> proposal.bbl:329: Package utf8x Error: Malformed UTF-8 sequence.
> proposal.bbl:329: leading text: \bibitem[StÃ05]{Stuermer:2005:OSCB}
> proposal.bbl:329: Package ucs Error: Unknown Unicode character 65533 = U+FFFD,
> proposal.bbl:329: leading text: \bibitem[StÃ05]{Stuermer:2005:OSCB}
> 
This bug was filed a while ago. bibtex wasn't probably fixed in the
meantime, however using alternative for bibtex was implemented in the
Debian packages (AFAICT).

For now I reassign that bug to texlive-binaries, can we close it?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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