Bug#704527: biber: Character "(" not allowed in key although valid in BiBTeX

[Hilmar Preuße]

On 15.12.2017 20:57, Norbert Preining wrote:

Hi Norbert,

> I faintly remember some discussion on one of the recent biber issues 
> on github and a new version coming out that fixes that.
> 
Hmm, I had a look at the repository and recently closed issues + open
issues, but did not find something.

The 2.10 beta at least still reports this as syntax error:

hille at amd64-sid:~$ biber 704527
INFO - This is Biber 2.10 (beta)
INFO - Logfile is '704527.blg'
INFO - Reading '704527.bcf'
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '704527.bib' for section 0
INFO - Reading ascii input as UTF-8
INFO - LaTeX decoding ...
INFO - Found BibTeX data source '704527.bib'
ERROR - BibTeX subsystem: /tmp/XiQzd7D7kf/704527.bib_11146.utf8, line 1,
syntax error: found ")", expected ","
INFO - ERRORS: 1

However I'm not sure if it is even the fault of biber. If you know more,
let us know. Thanks!

Hilmar
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