LaTeX warning explanation needed

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 10/14/21 2:27 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>
>> Assuming your .bib file does not contain state secrets, how about the
>> following? Create a new LyX doc (MWE) in which you just cite everything
>> that gets cited in the actual document. We don't need headings, images,
>> text etc., just the citations. Try compiling that. Assuming the same
>> problems occur, post the LyX MWE and the .bib file and let our resident
>> biblatex experts (of whom I am decidedly not one) try for themselves.
>
> Paul,
>
> Good idea, I might have thought of this instead of chasing my tail in
> circles. See both mwe.lyx and mwe.pdf attached.
>
> Looks like the issue is with Keefer, et al. 2008.
>
> I'll look at that while folks examine the .lyx file.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
OK, after fixing the paragraph setting for the Van Doornik reference, I 
got the MWE to compile by doing the following: in Document > Settings... 
 > Language > Encoding, I switched from Language default to "Other" and 
selected "Unicode (utf8)". I suspect there are some characters in the 
.bib file that are UTF-8 (which is my default locale setting) but not 
"latin9". So the log file contained some nonspecific bitching and 
moaning about latin9, which led me to discover that the default encoding 
(at least on my system) was latin9, and that wasn't cutting it.

Paul

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