I've started to look into the Unicode and HTML converters (and some related String conversion methods) and found some things which I will discuss here to see if you have any opinions or good ideas.

• My general plan is to move all this into https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/tree/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/strings
• The main file would be https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/importer/HTMLConverter.java . Any reason not to move it to the above location?
• In https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/strings/StringUtil.java there are two methods capitalizeFirst and toUpperFirstLetter which appears to do the same thing as UpperCaseChanger in https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/strings/CaseChangers.java . Any reason to keep the first two?
• https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/exporter/layout/format/FormatChars.java and https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/openoffice/OOPreFormatter.java are very similar. Main different is that the latter can convert {\emph} etc to italic and bold. Is there really a use case for this? I would guess that it may be used for particular style files in OpenOffice and will look more into this, but does anyone know?

Probably more to follow...