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  • Did you try to search the bbl file for ├? It should give you the entry where the problem is. Also you might consider to switch to biber, it might give a better handling of utf8. Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 19:39
  • @Guido The MWE would make it easier to answer the question asked. I agree it may not be germane to solving the specific problem. But that's not the question. Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 19:52
  • @cfr The MWE would have been \documentclass{article}\usepackage[backend=bibtex8,firstinits=true]{biblatex}\begin{document}\cite{*}\printbibliography\end{document} plus a bibtex record with the character. But the problem does not depend on the actual latex/bibtex code, but the fact that errors in the bbl are reported when they are typeset by \printbiliography. Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 20:06
  • @Guido Never mind. With an MWE you can demonstrate more easily how to isolate things. That's all. I entirely agree that this problem is as you say. But that was not the question. Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 20:08
  • @Guido: "a bibtex record with the character" - what character? ├ does not appear in the entire .bbl file, and to me, it looks like a misinterpreted character code in the console rather than an actual bit of a file in its intended encoding, anyway. That is what I am trying to find out. I see myself unable to produce an MWE because I do not know what characteristics in a BibTeX record cause the error. So to speak, my question is not how to solve the issue, but how to reproduce it in an MWE. Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 20:18