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

[Hilmar Preuße]

Control: reassign 704527 biber

Am 02.04.2013 um 14:55 teilte Harri Kiiskinen mit:

Hi Harri,

Long standing issue, I know.

> biber does not seem to accept the character "(" in a bibtex key. This
> is rather irritating, as the old bibtex did accept it along some
> other non-letter characters. This may of course be a conscious choice
> of the developers, but in any case it breaks the backwards
> compatibility of the databases (and for me, a lot of documents) and
> perhaps should be investigated. In older versions of biber there was
> an option to select a different type of parser, which in fact did
> circumvent the problem, but this option has obviously been removed.
> 
A few years has gone, we are at biber 2.12 currently. Could you re-check
if the problem has been solved meanwhile? If not please provide a test
case. Thanks!

Hilmar
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