[Tex/LaTex] elsarticle.cls and biblatex incompatibility

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I would like to submit a paper to an Elsevier journal, which uses elsarticle document class. elsarticle loads natbib but I've been using biblatex instead of BibTeX throughout most of my files (I have a common .bib file for all my publications which is biblatex compatible right now). The problem is that I have many authors with special characters (like ø, å, ü etc) and BibTeX was giving errors when compiling because of the encoding – this was the reason why I switched to biblatex in the first place.

Is there a quick way to make my .bib file compatible with BibTeX without manually substituting those special characters with their TeX versions?

Or will Elsevier become biblatex compatible soon?

Best Answer

biber will do such a conversion of the text encoding for you in tool mode via

biber --tool --output_encoding=ascii --output_safechars file.bib

If file.bib is 

@Article{Beauville:Chern,
  author =   {Beauville, A.},
  title =    {Variétés Kähleriennes dont la première classe de
                  Chern est nulle},
  journal =  {J.~Differential Geom.},
  year =     1983,
  volume =   18,
  pages =    {755--782},
}

then the converted file looks like

@article{Beauville:Chern,
  author = {Beauville, A.},
  title = {Vari\'{e}t\'{e}s K\"{a}hleriennes dont la premi\`{e}re classe de Chern est nulle},
  journal = {J.~Differential Geom.},
  year = {1983},
  volume = {18},
  pages = {755--782},
}
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