BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ running biblatex with utf-8 bib data

[GeoffRussell]

Hi biblatex people ...

I'm trying to learn how to work with utf-8 bib entries and am having difficulties. Below is my example, I've tried using lualatex and pdflatex, but either way ... biber crashes ... which I don't understand, since I thought it could handle utf8.

Thanks,
Geoff

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\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{vanDerWerfLCA,
author={van der Werf, Hayo M and ,G. and Corson,Michael S. and Wilfart,Aurélie},
year={2013},
month={06},
title={LCA Food 2012--towards sustainable food systems},
journal={The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment},
volume={18},
number={5},
pages={1180-1183},
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{british}{british-apa}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Article by \parencite{vanDerWerfLCA}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

Very good example.

Biber generates a log file of its own, the biber log or short blg. This is the most important source for help.

Running your example shows me a warning, that the last name of ,G could not be determined. Have a look at your author, there is some messy stuff.

It will run fine after you fixed the names and separated them with the proper and (as you already do).

[GeoffRussell]

Ah... thankyou.

But my real code still failed and I've now also realised I needed an \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} for non-ascii chars in the bbl file. Now it all
runs