Unicode and BibTeX

Unicode and BibTeX

[Khaled Hosny]

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I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using
bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another
alternative?

Regards,

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Re: Unicode and BibTeX

[Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد]

Salaam, Khaled,

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>  
wrote:

> I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using
> bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another
> alternative?

Can you port your database to bbl format -- \start-stoppublication -- and  
just use the bib module without bibtex?

Best wishes
Idris


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International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Re: Unicode and BibTeX

[Khaled Hosny]

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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:34:38AM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Salaam, Khaled,
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using
>> bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another
>> alternative?
>
> Can you port your database to bbl format -- \start-stoppublication -- and 
> just use the bib module without bibtex?

Thanks for the tip, that worked for me.

Regards,

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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