[EP-tech] Re: UTF-8 issues on BibTeX import?

[Ian Stuart]

On 10/03/14 11:02, Andrew Beeken wrote:
> Me again!
>
> Another issue that has been flagged up by our admin users is that a
> BibTeX import will fall over when it encounters accented characters
> in an author name. I’ve already flagged a problem with UTF-8 encoding
> in output in another email and I’m wondering if there is a similar
> fix here?

Something to consider (I fell over this) is that web servers have a 
tendency to not actually sent UTF-8, even when you ask them to....

I have a script that wouldn't render the name of some Dutch university 
correctly..... but when I added in the name of a chinese one, it was fine.

It was a blinkin' NIGHTMARE to figure out.... and in the end I bypassed 
the EPrints output, and just "printed" directly, with the line

    binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

in my code.

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Ian Stuart.
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