Text Formatting ⇒ Input Encoding for Bibliography

[mirou]

Hello everyone,

I am seeking help regarding my Thesis.bib file which has been behaving strangely ever since I started adding BibTeX items copied from academic journals.

I use TeXShop as an Editor and my preamble has the following:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{StyleThese}
\usepackage[fixlanguage]{babelbib}
\selectbiblanguage{french}
\usepackage{natbib}
\include{formatAndDefs}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\bibliographystyle{plainnat-fr}
\bibliography{These}
\end{document}
\mainmatter

My "formatAndDefs.tex" file was adapted from a French thesis template and is attached. And most importantly the following code defines my input encoding.

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\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

The compilation to PDFLaTeX seems to run sometimes and produces fatal errors at other times mentioning that:

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! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin1'.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.347 
      
You need to provide a definition with \DeclareInputText 
or \DeclareInputMath before using this key.

I have checked that "Thesis.bib" has not been altered to any other font (other than latin1). I have also tried copying bibliography items to TextEdit saving into latin1 and then recopying back again into Thesis.bib. But that didn't work either.

I am working on a Mac and my TeXShop distribution is 2.47, hoping that someone can help me stabilize this file as I am by no means able to worry about reconstructing my bibliography from scratch (almost 150 items) and I have to submit all my work in a month time.

[cgnieder]

Well, the message is pretty clear: you have a character in the wrong encoding in line 347. You should check that line (also for hidden chars) and maybe retype it in the correct encoding.

Regards