Wrong character table used for import

beogl

Dear Zotero,

When trying to import this page

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996411003240

the name "Rössler" got mangled to "Rössler".

This looks like character table issue. The page uses UTF-8 according to this tag (but it looks like Zotero believes it uses something else, probably Latin-1/ISO 8859-1):

<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

I have not checked the header sent however.

I am using Zotero 2.1.10 in Firefox 7.01.

adamsmith

make sure your translators are up to date - this was fixed for sciencedirect recently.
Point 4.) here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues

beogl

I just did and I still get the error. Maybe this is not in the version I am using (see above).

adamsmith

You can try manually downloading the most recent version:
Download from here
https://github.com/zotero/translators/raw/master/ScienceDirect.js
using right-click --> save link as
and save it to the translator directory in your zotero data folder.
http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data

beogl

Yes, that fixes it. Thanks.

But why didn't the "Update now" (as you suggested above) fix it? Is there a bug there?

adamsmith

recent translator changes sometimes take a while to get to the clients.

dstillman

Translator changes actually become available immediately, but we had a limit in the push script to prevent more than 10 translators from being updated at a time in post-commit mode, to prevent accidental pushes of all translators in case of a bug. But framework updates were probably hitting that limit, so we'll just take it out.

In any case, the updated ScienceDirect translator should now go out to all users.

Simon

In this case, there was an issue that was preventing the updated translators from being pushed to clients. That's fixed now.