---
title: "Unicode Characters in Mendeley Bibliography Breaking Latex?"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2011/10/unicode-characters-in-mendeley-bibliography-breaking-latex/"
date: "2011-10-26T13:45:59Z"
tags: ["latex","Mendeley"]
---

I use Mendeley for my reference and citation management.

I use TexClipse for (most) of my $latex \\LaTeX$ editing, ViM otherwise.

I use Xelatex / pdflatex for project building.

These don’t always work so well together. 

One issue I came across was that Mendeley can insert some weird Unicode whitespace characters that ‘disappear’ in TexClipse / Vim, but break xelatex/pdflatex.

Easy solution: set the project encoding in TexClipse to ignore these characters upon pasting.

Right click on your project -> Properties - > set Text File Encoding to US-ASCII; Apply

Job Done; No more Unicode woes!