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cleaning the bibliography
Sometimes you get some weird errors while processing the bibliography file, most specially when it was exported from Mendeley or Zotero, such as
Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence
You may clean the bibliography file with the following python3 script from David Magalhães Sousa ([email protected])
https://github.com/joaomlourenco/novathesis-extras/raw/main/Scripts/ntcleanbib.py
For example, to create a file clean.bib from a dirty file dirty.bib do:
python ntcleanbib.py -i dirty.bib -o clean.bibBibliography exported from Mendeley may have invalid characters in the cite key, namely "(" and ")". If you run the script with the addition option -k, it will also replace those invalid characters with "_".
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