utf-8 export bibtex issue

[Robby Stephenson]

On Friday 31 October 2008, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> A Divendres 31 Octubre 2008, Thibaud Hulin va escriure:
> > Hi happy developpers of tellico,
> > Thanks for your work.
> > However, I can't export my books tellico base to bibtex format (not
> > bibtexxml that I can't use), because I've got a utf-8 issue.
> > By example, with the word "athénien" I got ath{\'e}nienne in the final
> > file. My debian testing system is right with utf-8 by default, and I
> > tried to launch tellico by a console with good locale, but I don't
> > progress. This is a link to my file :
> > http://thibaud.hulin.free.fr/porte_doc/upload/these-biblio.tc
>
> I don't understand your problem. I think that it's correct to export an
> accented letter with {\'e} as é is correct in LaTeX.

Right. I know that there are some flavors of tex out there that support 
utf-8, but Tellico sort of defaults to the lowest common denominator.

If you want to change the behavior, you can edit the bibtex-translation.xml 
file that gets installed with Tellico. Take out the entries that you don't 
want Tellico to translate.

Robby