I hope I'm not repeating a question, but I've searched high and low and haven't found any answers to something I'm sure other users of pandoc have encountered. (The references to this topic I have found are concerned with pandoc to LaTeX, whereas this is simple pandoc to .html / .rtf / etc conversion.) It seems that the pandoc-citeproc processor does not know what to do with special characters and diacritics, either unusual ones (e.g. ʿ) or common (e.g. á), and places them them all after "z" when creating its bibliographies. Since my typical bibliography bristles with special characters, it would be great to know if there's a workaround to manually modify the sorting order, or neutralize the special characters -- in the MWE I have below, for example, to tell it to sort ʿAal as though it were "Aal" and Áberforth as though it were "Aberforth", so that they show up above Amber.
Here is my MWE:
---
csl: chicago-note-bibliography.csl
references:
- id: Amber2000
type: book
author:
- family: Amber
given: Rodrigo
issued:
- year: '2000'
title: Book 1
- id: Aberf2000
type: book
author:
- family: Áberforth
given: Rodrigo
issued:
- year: '2000'
title: Book 2
- id: Aal2000
type: book
author:
- family: ʿAal
given: Rodrigo
issued:
- year: '2000'
title: Book 3
...
This is my MWE.[@Amber2000] I want to see how it handles diacritics[@Aberf2000] and special characters.[@Aal2000]
Running pandoc mwe.md -o test.html --filter=pandoc-citeproc
, I get the following output:
<p>This is my MWE.<span class="citation"><a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a></span> I want to see how it handles diacritics<span class="citation"><a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a></span> and special characters.<span class="citation"><a href="#fn3" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref3"><sup>3</sup></a></span></p>
<div id="refs" class="references">
<div id="ref-Amber2000">
<p>Amber, Rodrigo. <em>Book 1</em>, 2000.</p>
</div>
<div id="ref-Aberf2000">
<p>Áberforth, Rodrigo. <em>Book 2</em>, 2000.</p>
</div>
<div id="ref-Aal2000">
<p>ʿAal, Rodrigo. <em>Book 3</em>, 2000.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn1"><p>Amber, <em>Book 1</em>. <a href="#fnref1">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn2"><p>Áberforth, <em>Book 2</em>. <a href="#fnref2">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn3"><p>ʿAal, <em>Book 3</em>. <a href="#fnref3">↩</a></p></li>
</ol>
</div>
As you can see, it sorts the bibliography Amber, Áberforth, ʿAal. Any ideas?