inukshuk/citeproc-ruby — Issue #8: Problems with umlauts in author names
Author: gladwig
Created: 2012-02-12 09:38:54+00:00
State: open

Hi,

I tried formatting some BibTeX files with bibtex-ruby and citeproc-ruby and encountered a problem when author names contain umlauts (ä, ö, ü). The problem seems to lie with citeproc-ruby (note the family name with an umlaut):

```ruby
book = {
'author' => [{ 'given' => 'Edgar Allen', 'family' => 'Müller' }],
'title' => 'Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays',
'type' => 'book',
'issued' => { 'date-parts' => [[1996]] },
'editor' => [{ 'family' => 'Quinn', 'given' => 'Patrick F.'}, { 'family' => 'Thompson', 'given' => 'G.R.' }],
'publisher' => 'Library of America',
'publisher-place' => 'New York'
}
```

>> CiteProc.process(book)
=> "M\303\274llerEdgar. (1996). Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays. (P. F. Quinn & G. R. Thompson, Eds., , Tran.). New York: Library of America."

As you can see the family and given name are mangled. Without the umlaut everything is fine:

```ruby
book = {
'author' => [{ 'given' => 'Edgar Allen', 'family' => 'Mueller' }],
'title' => 'Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays',
'type' => 'book',
'issued' => { 'date-parts' => [[1996]] },
'editor' => [{ 'family' => 'Quinn', 'given' => 'Patrick F.'}, { 'family' => 'Thompson', 'given' => 'G.R.' }],
'publisher' => 'Library of America',
'publisher-place' => 'New York'
}
```

>> CiteProc.process(book)
=> "Mueller, E. A. (1996). Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays. (P. F. Quinn & G. R. Thompson, Eds., , Tran.). New York: Library of America."