How to produce ũ in my bibliography

Question

I am trying to produce Dũng as a name in my bib. I do use \~u for this.

I am loading inputenc with the utf8 option. the final result is "Dng (2012)" in the text and "Dng, N. V. (2012)." in my Bib. So somehow the ũ is not encoded.

How can I tackle this?

Here is the code for the bib entry that I currently have:

@phdthesis{Dung:2012,
    Author = {D{\~u}ng, Ng{\^o} Vi},
    Date-Added = {2013-06-21T11:01:40GMT},
    Date-Modified = {2013-06-21 11:29:57 +0000},
    Title = {{An Institution-Based View of the Competitive Advantage of Firms in Emerging and Transition Economies}}

I do use biblatex to create my bibliography.

Result in Bibliography

This is the entry for the bibliography with my current settings:

This is the result when I cite the author.

citeDung

So somehow it does not seem that I get the correct ũ produced

This is a condensed verion of my LaTeX file

\documentclass[a4paper,openright,oneside,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[hyperref=true,
            url=false,
            isbn=false,
            backend=biber
            ]{biblatex}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\bibliography{Bibliography_papers_test}  %
\begin{document}
\section{One}
This is my test text \citeauthor{Dung:2012}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} \printbibliography%
\end{document}

Where

@phdthesis{Dung:2012,
    Author = {D{\~u}ng, Ng{\^o} Vi},
    Title = {{An Institution-Based View of the Competitive Advantage of Firms in Emerging and Transition Economies}},
        Year = {2012}
         }

Is my Bib file and

Result

Is the corresponding pdf

Check out this post: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol-or-identify-a-math-alphabet — dustin, Jun 21 '13 at 13:28
@dustin This is not a question about symbols, it's a question about bibtex. You simply can't use UTF-8 encoded .bib files if you are using bibtex. You can switch to biblatex and biber which can handle this. Otherwise you need to use \~u. — Alan Munn, Jun 21 '13 at 13:37
@wierts Can you construct a minimal document that shows what you did, and also show the .bib entry that you have? — Alan Munn, Jun 21 '13 at 13:43
You say "i do not want to use {~}u". Are you open to other macro-oriented solutions (\myfunction{u}), or are you looking only for a font-related solution? — Steven B. Segletes, Jun 21 '13 at 14:10
bibtex8 can process utf8-encoded files. Note that it is not really utf8 aware: e.g., change.case$ won't work correctly, so you have to handle some entries specially. But it may be rather easier than switching to Biblatex. — Charles Stewart, Jun 21 '13 at 16:23
All Thanks for the answers upto know.
Here is the code for the bib entry that I have currently: — wierts, Jun 25 '13 at 14:05
@wierts If I try a simple test document, I get the expected "Dũng". Can you add a minimal document? It's important to know how you load the bib file and how you produce the bibliography and citation. — egreg, Jun 25 '13 at 14:46

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '13 at 16:02

The problem is that biber translates \~u to ũ and the standard set of Unicode characters provided by the utf8 option doesn't know this character.

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[hyperref=true,
            url=false,
            isbn=false,
            backend=biber
            ]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{0169}{\~u} % make the character known

\addbibresource{Bibliography_papers_test.bib} % better than \bibliography

\begin{document} 

\tableofcontents

\section{One}


This is my test text \citeauthor{Dung:2012}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc] % the bibliography goes to the TOC

\end{document}

If you load

\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}

then the Cyrillic T2A encoding is the default one, which is not wanted if the main language is English.

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Brilliant!
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{0169}{\~u} % make the character known

This is what was missing, now the character does appear — wierts, Jun 25 '13 at 16:09

How to produce ũ in my bibliography

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