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I know XeLatex is a one of the solution, but it seems is doable in Babel also
My setup: Miktex 2.9 with Babel 2015/08/03 3.9m and Biber 2.1
This is MWE
documentclass[a4paper]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[russian,greek,english]{babel}
usepackage[natbib=true,
style=alphabetic,
isbn=true,
url=true,
citestyle=alphabetic,
defernumbers=false,
sorting=nyt,
bibencoding=utf8,
backend=biber,
language=auto,
autolang=other,]{biblatex}
addbibresource{test.bib}
begin{document}
Example one in Greek textgreek{cite{AlKarapan}},
example two in Russian
{ otherlanguage{russian}текст на русском cite{CypinIstorijaRPC} текст на русском} and example in English again.
printbibliography
end{document}
and test.bib is following:
@Book{AlKarapan,
author = {Καραπαναγοπούλου, Αλέξανδρος Κ.},
title = {Η Μεγάλη Σύνοδος της Ορθοδόξου Ανατολικής Εκκλησίας},
publisher = {auto-édition},
year = {hbox{1990--1998}},
volumes = {6},
address = {Αθήνα},
hyphenation={greek},
langid={greek},
}
@Inbook{CypinIstorijaRPC,
author = {Владислав Цыпин},
title = {История Русской Церкви 1917--1997},
chapter = {VIII},
publisher = {Издательство Спасо-Преображенского Валаамского монастыря},
address = {Москва},
date = {1997},
urldate = {2010-10-25},
url = {http://old.pravoslavie.by/podpod.asp?id=135&Session=10},
langid={russian},
hyphenation={russian},
}
Now if you run pdflatex–biber-pdflatex you see
![no letters in bibliography]()
error is:
Command textKappa unavailable in encoding OT1. endentry
and so on…
If you make main language Russian, you will see letters in key for Russian bibentry but not in Greek bibentry.
Solution is following:
Open generated bbl file and find labelalpha field entry
field{labelalpha}{Καρ98}
and
field{labelalpha}{Цып97}
and add there appropriate otherlanguage command entries as
field{labelalpha}{otherlanguage{greek}Καρ98}
and
field{labelalpha}{otherlanguage{russian}Цып97}
save it and just run pdflatex..Errors are gone and everything is OK..
So question is How can i addd otherlanguage call to labelalpha entries without
editing bbl file? can biblatex do this? I thin it is natural since keys are generated by langid so otherlanguage or in general labelalpha‘s language
needs to be same as langid
p.s.
I encountered this problem with, English, Russian,Greek,Georgian setup. No matter which language is set as main language for document…adding ‘otherlanguage’ call solves the problem..Example was shortened for demo.
edited: just added image how bibliography looks after editing .bbl file adding ‘otherlanguage’ calls![enter image description here]()
I think language=auto or similar option needs to applied for keys in bibliography list
