[Tex/LaTex] Norwegian letters in bibliography and article text

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I'm trying to write an article in English with some Norwegian names in it, both in the article itself as well as in the bibliography (bibtex).

Strangely, I don't get the display of the Norwegian letters right.

When I use:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

%\usepackage[norsk]{babel}

I get the letters right in the text but not in bibliography.

When I use

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

%\usepackage[norsk]{babel}

the letters are correctly dispayed in the bibliography but not in article text. The use of \usepackage[norsk]{babel} does not seem to help in either case.

I can remember having used only

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

once which had worked fine so I really cannot explain these strange results…

I'm using windows 7, MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXnic Center 2.0 beta.

Any suggestions what might be wrong or what I should check?

Best Answer

When you changed to 

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

You also need to re-encode your document to latin1 from utf-8.

But anyway better probably is to use and declare utf-8 but use traditional ascii markup in the bib file so {\"o} etc rather than using the letter directly, then the bib file is independent of the encoding used in the document, and can be used unchanged with documents with different encodings.

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