BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ umlaut

[daantje]

I have a reference with an umlaut in its title, and I can't get it to work.

Here's the Bibtex entry:

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@ARTICLE{Callieri2005,
  author = {Callieri, C and Moro, S and Caravati, E and Crosbie, N D and Weisse,
	T},
  title = {Strain-specific photosynthetic response of freshwater picocyanobacteria},
  journal = {Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung f{\"u}r Theoretische und
	Angewandte Limnologie},
  year = {2005},
  volume = {80},
  pages = {491-501},
  owner = {daan},
  timestamp = {2009.10.06}
}

And here are the messages I get:

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[LaTeX] finished with exit status 1
text.tex:20:Undefined control sequence. ...dlungen der Internationale Vereinigung f\�
[LaTeX] 1 error, 0 warnings, 0 badboxes

I read somewhere the braces around the \"a are supposed to stop Bibtex from interpreting it (or something), but Latex's output seems to indicate it receives a ä, and that is what I see in the .bbl file.

How do I get an umlaut in my references without error messages?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi daantje,

this BibTeX entry works fine for me even with the umlaut. Probably your main document code requires a correction. Please post a minimal working example or at least your preamble.

Stefan

[daantje]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. In the process of making a minimal working example I discovered that if I copy the entire .tex (and .bst) file to a different directory, compiling gives no errors and the umlaut appears just fine. So my problem is solved, although we will probably never find out what caused it in the first place.

Magical, this Latex!

Daan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Daan,

it could be caused just by a wrong character encoding in the original file. Sometimes that happens if a file is edited unter Windows and used on Linux afterwards for example, or if it's copied of the internet with another encoding.

Stefan