Merge pull request #6 from ReScience/ascii-only-bibtex

convert name to ASCII-only when generating bibtex label

Author: rougier

article.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # ReScience yaml parser
 # Released under the BSD two-clauses licence
+import unicodedata
 
 import yaml
 import dateutil.parser
@@ -155,6 +156,14 @@ def __init__(self, data):
                 self.authors_full += self.authors[n-2].fullname + " and "
                 self.authors_full += self.authors[n-1].fullname
 
+        # create ASCII bibtex label
+        # - Try to convert unicode character to their ASCII equivalent
+        bibtex_label_bytes = \
+        unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', self.authors[0].lastname).encode('ascii',
+                                                                       'ignore')
+        self.bibtex_label = str(bibtex_label_bytes, 'ascii')
+
+
 
 
     def parse(self, data):

yaml-to-bibtex.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 def generate_bibtex(filename, article):
     content = (
-        "@Article {{{_.authors[0].lastname}:{_.date_published.year},\n"
+        "@Article {{{_.bibtex_label}:{_.date_published.year},\n"
         "  author =       {{{_.authors_full}}},\n"
         "  title =        {{{{{_.title}}}}},\n"
         "  journal =      {{{_.journal_name}}},\n"