BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Using Greek characters in a biblatex/biber bibliography

[proxxi]

Hello,

I am writing my master-thesis in german and I also use literature which is in greek. Therefore I need to add them to my bibliography. When I add a reference with greek characters, I get the following error messages:

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! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Δ not set up for use with LaTeX.
See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.45
Your command was ignored.
Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command,
or <return> to continue without it.
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ι not set up for use with LaTeX.
See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

And so on.

My Main.tex:

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\RequirePackage[ngerman = ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}

% Seitenlayout:
\documentclass{scrbook}

% load packages:
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-luh-ipw]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{literature.bib}

\title{test}

\begin{document}

\cite{test1}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

My literature.bib:

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@online{test1,
  title = {{Διακήρυξη του}},
  url = {http://www.xy.com},
  author = {{franz ferdinand}},
  urldate = {2014-08-18},
}

Hope somebody can help me with this, I would very much appreciate it!

Yours
Jannis

[Johannes_B]

The very simplest solutoin seems to be to use a unicode aware engine like XeLateX or LuaLaTeX. This should solve your problems.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen `latex`, `pdflatex`, `lualatex` und `xelatex`?

[cgnieder]

Hi proxxi,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

With pdflatex you could try something along those lines:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{textalpha}
\begin{document}
Διακήρυξη του
\end{document}

Regards

[proxxi]

I tried the solution with pdflatex and it works just fine.
Thanks a lot for your help!