id summary reporter owner description type status priority component severity resolution keywords cc release 7184 unable to read special unicode characters Patrick Roman Mohr "If you try to use the BibAdd Macro with a UTF-8 encoded file that contains special characters which are encoded with 2 or more Bytes, a UnicodeDecodeError occurs. In my case, I need to use German Umlauts like ä,ö,ü. A workaround for that is to handle the data as unicode objects from the start. So what I did is to utf-8-decode the string, that was read, into a unicode object. The bibtexparse library and the whole Trac-System handle unicode objects just as well as str objects. This is the patch I made to tracbib.py to make this work: {{{ 191,196c191,192 < try: < # handle all data as unicode objects < u = unicode(string,""utf-8"") < entries = extract_entries(u) < except UnicodeDecodeError: < raise TracError(""A UnicodeDecodeError occured while loading the data. Try to save the file in UTF-8 encoding."") --- > > entries = extract_entries(string) }}} " enhancement closed normal TracBibPlugin normal fixed 0.11