I'm using biblatex and wish to print a name (which has a "ä" character, say "Därwin") bold every time it shows up in the bibliography.
This answer provides a solution that works, provided my tex file is ISO-8859 encoded (I'm not sure I understand all the details about encoding). However, it ruins the detection of the last author in the list, whose name should be preceded by "and" and not followed by a comma. So instead of "Smith and Doe (1990)" I get "Smith, Doe, (1990)", even when the author printed in bold is Därwin.
Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,natbib=true,%
minbibnames=15,%
maxbibnames=15,%
backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Darwin.84,
author = {C. D\"{a}rwin},
title = {The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species},
publisher = {John Murray},
address = {London},
edition = 2,
year = 1884}
@ARTICLE{Davies.pnas04,
AUTHOR = {Davies, T. J. AND Barraclough, T. G. AND Chase, M. W. AND Soltis, P. S. AND Soltis, D. E. AND Savolainen, V.},
TITLE = {D\"{a}rwin's abominable mystery: {Insights} from a supertree of the angiosperms.},
JOURNAL = {Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.},
VOLUME = {101},
PAGES = {1904--1909},
YEAR = {2004},
MONTH = Feb,
NUMBER = {7}
}
@ARTICLE{Vamosi.el10,
AUTHOR = {Vamosi, J. C. AND Vamosi, S. M.},
TITLE = {Key innovations within a geographical context in flowering plants: towards resolving {D\"{a}rwin}'s abominable mystery.},
JOURNAL = {Ecol. Lett.},
VOLUME = {13},
PAGES = {1270--1279},
YEAR = {2010},
MONTH = Oct,
NUMBER = {10}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\newcommand{\makeauthorbold}[1]{%
\DeclareNameFormat{author}{%
\ifnumequal{\value{listcount}}{1}
{\ifnumequal{\value{liststop}}{1}
{\expandafter\ifstrequal{##1}{#1}{\textbf{##1\addcomma\addspace ##4\addcomma\isdot}}{##1\addcomma\addspace ##4\addcomma\isdot}}
{\expandafter\ifstrequal{##1}{#1}{\textbf{##1\addcomma\addspace ##4}}{##1\addcomma\addspace ##4}}}
{\ifnumless{\value{listcount}}{\value{liststop}}
{\expandafter\ifstrequal{##1}{#1}{\textbf{\addcomma\addspace ##1\addcomma\addspace ##4}}{\addcomma\addspace ##1\addcomma\addspace ##4}}
{\expandafter\ifstrequal{##1}{#1}{\textbf{\addcomma\addspace ##1\addcomma\addspace ##4\addcomma\isdot}}{\addcomma\addspace ##1\addcomma\addspace ##4\addcomma\isdot}}%
}%
}%
}
\makeauthorbold{Därwin}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Les \oe{}uvres de \citeauthor{Darwin.84} ont souvent été citées, par exemple par \citet{Davies.pnas04,Vamosi.el10}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
How to get "and Savolainen, V. (2004)" ?

biblatexyou might want to try Audrey's solution from Make specific author bold using biblatex, I recommend you use name hashes as alluded to there and explained in Highlight an author in bibliography using biblatex allowing bibliography style to format it – moewe Dec 15 '15 at 15:15\boldnamesolution by Audrey : http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/73246/50288 – Jos Dec 15 '15 at 16:29