Am Mon, 8 May 2017 17:56:08 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau:
So bibtex has a funny way of dealing with comments, and do we really care about Scribe?
biber handles comments differently than bibtex, see e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/261261/are-comments-discouraged-in-a... As a thumbrule one can sum the rule up that *inside* field text comment chars should be input according the tex rule for the field *type*. That means that normal textfields should use \%, while url's and other verbatim-like field can use %.
We made the choice NOT to remain *strictly* bibtex compatible, after all bibtex is limited to ASCII 7-bit!
That's not true bibtex has no real problem with 8-bit-encodings, and works even quite often quite good with utf8 (when you don't try to use at places where it can be broken into parts. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/