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frabjous wrote: author = {Gain, James and Marais, Patrick and Stra{\upshape{\ss}}er , Wolfgang}

Brilliant ! It worked! Thanks a lot

@Stefan: thanks for that input. So the problem was not with Bibtex but with my lack of knowledge of German . Thanks for the help.

@frabjous : Yes the minimal sample is working fine, so is it due to multiple authors' names? or different bib. style? i am not able to figure out the problem..those special characters are getting rendered fine even with all tex files of the thesis, only problem is with bib file.

And \bibliographystyle used in my document is

\bibliographystyle{acmtrans}

Thanks for the replies.

My apologies, I don't have any knowledge about German.

Bibtex Author entry
author = {Gain, James and Marais, Patrick and Stra{\ss}er , Wolfgang},

Output: GAIN, J., MARAIS, P., AND STRASSER

tex packages:
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage ...

Hi,
My knowledge with LaTex and BibTex is at intermediate level, I have been working for days but still not able to get "ß" rendered properly in the Bibliography (BibTex) I tried {\ss} but it's rendering it as "ss" instead of "ß", required packages are included in tex file there are no build ...