I need my bib file to be ASCII encoded so that it works when Lyx invokes Bibtex for my bibliography and referencing. However within TeXShop on my mac I can't find the option to encode in ASCII. UTF-8 does not work. What do i need to do to have it encode in ASCII
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There is no setting for ASCII but you must make sure you only type characters that are in the ASCII set; e.g., you can only type accented characters using macros (e.g., \'e instead of é directly) since accented characters are not part of the ASCII set. Please read theHelp->File Encoding and TeXShop
document for more information. Most single byte encodings and UTF-8 Unicode actual have ASCII as a subset.
{\'e}
not the accented letter, it doesn't matter if it is saved as utf-8 or ascii as there is no difference.biber
, which understands utf8.