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Docear's desktop version (GPL)
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Docear's BibTeX parser deletes Umlauts and other special characters #437

Open Joeran opened 10 years ago

Joeran commented 10 years ago

There is a number of users reporting problems with Docear's BibTeX parser. The problem does not only relate to Mendeley's BibTeX file but also to BibTeX files from JabRef

http://www.docear.org/support/forums/docear-support-forums-group3/bug-reports-forum6/jabref-always-loses-chinese-references-thread983/ http://www.docear.org/support/forums/docear-support-forums-group3/bug-reports-forum6/cyrillic-encoding-problem-in-references-thread1007/

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http://www.docear.org/support/forums/docear-support-forums-group3/bug-reports-forum6/bibtex-file-gets-reencoded-in-utf8-although-options-are-cp1252-thread889/

One example BibTeX file was send on 7 August 2014, email subject "bibtex-file automatically modified by docear". The issue was further clarified in the email "Re: Forum post - Re: JabRef always loses Chinese references", 8 August 2014.