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

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.
Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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