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I'm having trouble showing proper reference list - one letter just does not appear. I googled possible solutions, and updated the fonts, packages, but still can't resolve this.

Here's MWE:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Unicode in references
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Unicode in references
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=chicago-authordate, autocite=inline,bibencoding=utf8, sorting=nyt, language=false, doi=false, url=false, isbn=false, hyperref=true, maxcitenames=2, maxbibnames=100, dashed=false, uniquelist=false, refsegment=chapter, defernumbers=true]{biblatex} 
\bibliography{mylibrary}
\begin{document}
The problem letter \u{g}.
\textcite{javorcik2011migrant}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The mylibrary file contains the following (the file is saved as utf-8 encoded file):

@article{javorcik2011migrant,
    Author = {Javorcik, Beata S and {\"O}zden, \c{C}a\u{g}lar and Spatareanu, Mariana and Neagu, Cristina},
    Date-Added = {2016-05-23 20:21:57 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2016-05-27 19:12:23 +0000},
    Doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.01.012},
    Issn = {0304-3878},
    Journal = {Journal of Development {E}conomics},
    Keywords = {Brain drain},
    Number = {2},
    Pages = {231 - 241},
    Title = {Migrant networks and foreign direct investment},
    Volume = {94},
    Xurl = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387810000222},
    Year = {2011},
    Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.01.012}}

This is what I see in the compiled file: What I see in the output

Note that the letter ğ is shown in the text no problem, but for some reason it does not appear in the reference list. This is the log output:

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l.6 \begin{document}

The document class does not seems to support chapters.

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\openout1 = `test.aux'.

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Package biblatex Info: Reference section=0 on input line 6.
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Missing character: There is no ğ in font ecrm1200!

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Package logreq Info: Writing requests to 'test.run.xml'.
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Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
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 10109 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 6931 words of font info for 19 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1328 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 44i,4n,43p,911b,930s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s

Output written on /Users/removed/Dropbox/Thesis/currentdraft/temptexfil
es/test.pdf (1 page).

This is the contents of the .blg file:

[0] Config.pm:340> INFO - This is Biber 2.4
[0] Config.pm:343> INFO - Logfile is '/Users/removed/Dropbox/Thesis/currentdraft/temptexfiles/test.blg'
[44] biber-darwin:287> INFO - === Fri May 27, 2016, 22:06:51
[59] Biber.pm:347> INFO - Reading '/Users/removed/Dropbox/Thesis/currentdraft/temptexfiles/test.bcf'
[153] Biber.pm:741> INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
[163] Biber.pm:3150> INFO - Processing section 0
[202] Biber.pm:3307> INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'mylibrary.bib' for section 0
[380] bibtex.pm:1124> INFO - Decoding LaTeX character macros into UTF-8
[487] bibtex.pm:985> INFO - Found BibTeX data source '/Users/removed/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/local/mylibrary.bib'
[583] UCollate.pm:65> INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
[583] UCollate.pm:65> INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'normalization = NFD' with 'normalization = prenormalized'
[583] Biber.pm:3027> INFO - Sorting list 'nyt/global' of type 'entry' with scheme 'nyt' and locale 'en-US'
[583] Biber.pm:3031> INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en-US'
[585] bbl.pm:519> INFO - Writing '/Users/removed/Dropbox/Thesis/currentdraft/temptexfiles/test.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8'
[585] bbl.pm:615> INFO - Output to /Users/removed/Dropbox/Thesis/currentdraft/temptexfiles/test.bbl

I can see many Unicode characters, just not ğ. Why?

I'm on OSX El Capitan. All TeX related things are updated via TeXLive.

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  • You should do \usepackage{fontspec} rather than loading fontenc and inputenc, with XeLaTeX.
    – egreg
    May 27, 2016 at 21:43
  • Excellent! Can you put it as an answer? Actually @David Carlisle posted an expanded version, so if you don't mind I'll accept his answer? If you do, then please post yours and I'll accept it. :)
    – econ
    May 27, 2016 at 21:45

2 Answers 2

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Using fontenc with XeLaTeX is wrong, because the engine uses Unicode which is based on Latin-1 for the lowest block and T1 doesn't coincide with Latin-1.

The glyph ğ is covered by T1, but it is in a position that can't correspond to the glyph as XeTeX sees it, because it is not in Latin-1. Other glyphs have the same problem; others that are in Latin-1 are in different positions in T1.

Either use pdflatex or load fontspec instead of fontenc. Note that inputenc will do nothing, but it's better to remove it, too.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\usepackage[<options>]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{mylibrary.bib}

is the correct preamble (add the rest). Note that \addbibresource is recommended over \bibliography (the .bib extension is required with the recommended command).

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  • ğ works fine for me with pdflatex/T1-encoding. May 27, 2016 at 22:00
  • @UlrikeFischer yes but inputenc in utf8 will construct \u{g} from ğ which will then use the \accent primitive over a g, with xetex that's all disabled and Unicode goes straight through so you need a font with that slot May 27, 2016 at 22:02
  • @DavidCarlisle: No ğ is a real glyph in T1 \DeclareTextComposite{\u}{T1}{g}{167} (and I know why it doesn't work with xelatex -- after I'm constanly telling people not to use T1-encoded fonts with the unicode engines,) May 27, 2016 at 22:06
  • @UlrikeFischer With pdflatex it's two byte; but for XeTeX it's a single entity.
    – egreg
    May 27, 2016 at 22:08
  • For xetex the glyph is at position 287 of the current font and there is nothing there with a T1 font. May 27, 2016 at 22:17
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Do not use fontenc with xetex, you are specifying T1 encoded fonts which is a non-unicode encoding with just 256 characters, biber and xetex want unicode so you get in the log

 Missing character: There is no ğ in font ecrm1200!

ğ is U+011f so can not be in a T1 encoded font that only has slots up to FF

Instead use

\usepackage{fontspec}

and delete

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Unicode in references
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Unicode in references
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  • Thank you! :) I just saw @egreg's response, so out of courtesy I'll accept his answer (if he posts within the next 10 minutes or so). Otherwise, I'll go with yours! :)
    – econ
    May 27, 2016 at 21:47
  • 1
    @econ egreg has far too much rep already, vote for me!! :-) May 27, 2016 at 21:48
  • haha, you're not that far behind! 8 mln people reached... Wow, you guys are cool! :) I'll vote for your answer anyway (just starting so my votes are not registering yet...)
    – econ
    May 27, 2016 at 21:54

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