Removing accents from coauthor names causes issues

[kaanaksit]

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Bug description

Coauthor names are not highlighted when they have accents in their names

How to reproduce the bug

al-folio/_layouts/bib.liquid

Line 69 in 36bc24f

{%- assign clean_last_name = author_last_name | downcase | remove_accents -%}

The line above has remove_accents, and this causes issues if the surnames have accents or special characters from other languages.

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What operating system are you using?

Linux

Where are you seeing the problem on?

Running locally without Docker

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[george-gca]

If you look at the line just below:

al-folio/_layouts/bib.liquid

Line 70 in 36bc24f

{% if site.data.coauthors[clean_last_name] %}

This line means that we look for this clean name in the list of coauthors, which in this case are the keys: "adams", "podolsky", "rosen", "bach", "przibram", "schrodinger", "lorentz", "planck". Note that these are just keys to search for these coauthors. When writing their names in the publications we use the names provided in the bib entry, not this key.

What this means is, to ease the search process you should write the coauthors keys with simple chars, removing these special chars, while in the bib entries themselves you can keep all the special chars. Of course you can change this behavior for your site.