How can I insert a special french character in a bibtex cite-key?

Question

I'm trying to use some tricks in order to have the correct characters in my bibliography :

  @book{Anzieu1981,
  author = {Anzieu, Didier},
  title = {Le corps de l'{\oe}uvre.%some tricks like this one. Essais psychanalytiques sur le travail créateur},
  publisher = {Gallimard},
  address = {Paris, France},
  year = {1981},
  }

But I have an issue with a cite-key :

  @misc{Ricœur1955,
  author = {Ricoeur, Paul},
  title = {La parole est mon royaume},
  number = {4},
  url = {http://leportique.revues.org/263},
  year = {1955},
  }

When I run my .bib file with Texmaker (on a Mac), that character : œ isn't compiled correctly and I can't resolve myself to use the following one : oe. How can I fix that issue ?

No, it doesn't work with UTF-8 or ISO. I have to use applemac/inputenc instead. And it works... except for that case. — domi, Oct 22 '14 at 22:30
Just call him Rick :o). But you can write author={Ricœur, Paul}and title={Le corps de l'œuvre…} if you use biber. — Bernard, Oct 22 '14 at 22:55
Why do you have to use applemac? It should be forbidden these days… — Bernard, Oct 22 '14 at 23:01
In addition to use bibtexu you have to compile with lualatex or xelatex — Guido, Oct 22 '14 at 23:06
Why do you want the oe diphthong in the key and just a plain oe in the actual name? If anything (and it's kind of a big if) that's backwards: no one sees or cares what the bibkey is, whereas it does matter that the output is correct. So, while I like the name+date bibkey approach (e.g., ricoeur1955) for bibkeys, you could more easily have a98soidfha as the bibkey than you could have author = {RIcoeru, Pauli} as the field entry.... — jon, Oct 23 '14 at 00:59

Guido · Answer 1 · 2014-10-23T00:50:32.220

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It is possible to use non ASCI character in bibtex entry keys if one compiles with lualatex or xelatex and either bibtex8 or bibtexu.

Here is an MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{Ricœur1955,
  author = {Ricœur, Paul},
  title = {La parole est mon royaume},
  number = {4},
  url = {http://leportique.revues.org/263},
  year = {1955},
  }
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

Ricœur \cite{Ricœur1955} \verb|\cite{Ricœur1955}|

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname.bib}

\end{document}

Compiling the MWE with lualatex + bibtexu + lualatex + lualatex produces

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edited Oct 23 '14 at 00:50

answered Oct 22 '14 at 23:21

Guido

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In fact, it works fine when I use Times as my \setmainfont command. It doesn't work when I set that command : \setmainfont{Minion Pro}. Even when I encode my file in UTF-8 with Xelatex. Does it mean that the problem is due to Minion Pro ? – domi Oct 23 '14 at 07:00
For me it works with Minion Pro using \usepackage{MinionPro}. I have installed it using Font Pro framework. – Guido Oct 23 '14 at 07:04
Do you work on a mac ? May you post your preamble, please, so I could try to see if it works on mine ? – domi Oct 23 '14 at 07:39
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OK. I've modified the label's name of Ricœeur. I called it Ric1955 and it works fine. – domi Oct 23 '14 at 08:13
The MWE is in the post, for Minion Pro, just add \usepackage{MinionPro} to the preamble. I did just after losing fontspec. With lualatex or xelatex and bibtexu there is no need to change the key. – Guido Oct 23 '14 at 08:59

How can I insert a special french character in a bibtex cite-key?

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