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Wrong behaviour of bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings

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From: gojjoe2 <at> googlemail.com
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: Wrong behaviour of bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 13:27:26 +0100

Hi,

The bibtex-generate-autokey function uses 'bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings' to substitute special or accented characters or ligatures with ascii characters.

I noticed that it doesn't lead to the intended behaviour for '\oe' and '\OE', which get converted to 'oee' rather than 'oe'. On the other hand, '\o', '\"o', and their capitalized counterparts are correctly converted to 'oe' (and also '\ae' to 'ae').

This quirk seems to be fixed if '\o' and '\oe' are swapped in bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings. Then all variants are correctly converted.

So I propose to change the current bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings into

'(("\\\\aa" . "a")
  ("\\\\AA" . "A")
  ("\\\"a\\|\\\\\\\"a\\|\\\\ae" . "ae")
  ("\\\"A\\|\\\\\\\"A\\|\\\\AE" . "Ae")
  ("\\\\i" . "i")
  ("\\\\j" . "j")
  ("\\\\l" . "l")
  ("\\\\L" . "L")
  ("\\\"o\\|\\\\\\\"o\\|\\\\oe\\|\\\\o" . "oe")
  ("\\\"O\\|\\\\\\\"O\\|\\\\OE\\|\\\\O" . "Oe")
  ("\\\"s\\|\\\\\\\"s\\|\\\\3" . "ss")
  ("\\\"u\\|\\\\\\\"u" . "ue")
  ("\\\"U\\|\\\\\\\"U" . "Ue")
  ("\\\\`\\|\\\\'\\|\\\\\\^\\|\\\\~\\|\\\\=\\|\\\\\\.\\|\\\\u\\|\\\\v\\|\\\\H\\|\\\\t\\|\\\\c\\|\\\\d\\|\\\\b" . "")
  ("[`'\"{}#]" . "")
  ("\\\\-" . "")
  ("\\\\?[ 	\n]+\\|~" . " "))

Cheers!

Message #8 received at 39479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: gojjoe2 <at> googlemail.com
Cc: winkler <at> gnu.org, 39479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39479: Wrong behaviour of bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:57:53 +0100

Hi,

thanks for your report.  The function in question is part of `bibtex.el'
which in return is part of Emacs itself and not AUCTeX.  I'm CC'ing
bibtex maintainer asking him if he could have a look at your
suggestion.  If you don't receive an answer in due time, please consider
reporting this issue as an Emacs bug.

@Roland: Can you please have a look at the report below?  TIA.

I will close this report since it doesn't apply to AUCTeX.

Best, Arash

gojjoe2--- via bug-auctex via Bug reporting list for AUCTeX <bug-auctex <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The bibtex-generate-autokey function uses
> 'bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings' to substitute special or accented
> characters or ligatures with ascii characters.
>
> I noticed that it doesn't lead to the intended behaviour for '\oe' and
> '\OE', which get converted to 'oee' rather than 'oe'. On the other
> hand, '\o', '\"o', and their capitalized counterparts are correctly
> converted to 'oe' (and also '\ae' to 'ae').
>
> This quirk seems to be fixed if '\o' and '\oe' are swapped in
> bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings. Then all variants are correctly
> converted.
>
> So I propose to change the current bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings into
>
> '(("\\\\aa" . "a")
>   ("\\\\AA" . "A")
>   ("\\\"a\\|\\\\\\\"a\\|\\\\ae" . "ae")
>   ("\\\"A\\|\\\\\\\"A\\|\\\\AE" . "Ae")
>   ("\\\\i" . "i")
>   ("\\\\j" . "j")
>   ("\\\\l" . "l")
>   ("\\\\L" . "L")
>   ("\\\"o\\|\\\\\\\"o\\|\\\\oe\\|\\\\o" . "oe")
>   ("\\\"O\\|\\\\\\\"O\\|\\\\OE\\|\\\\O" . "Oe")
>   ("\\\"s\\|\\\\\\\"s\\|\\\\3" . "ss")
>   ("\\\"u\\|\\\\\\\"u" . "ue")
>   ("\\\"U\\|\\\\\\\"U" . "Ue")
>   ("\\\\`\\|\\\\'\\|\\\\\\^\\|\\\\~\\|\\\\=\\|\\\\\\.\\|\\\\u\\|\\\\v\\|\\\\H\\|\\\\t\\|\\\\c\\|\\\\d\\|\\\\b"
> . "")
>   ("[`'\"{}#]" . "")
>   ("\\\\-" . "")
>   ("\\\\?[ 	\n]+\\|~" . " "))
>
> Cheers!
>
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