bibtex export non latin characters

jcomes

Hi, zotero is great, but I have a problem to export data as a bibtext file. If there are Non-Latin characters, I get errors: If there is written "München" I get a "Mu?nchen" instead of "M{\"u}nchen". What are I am doing wrong?
I us ubuntu 11.10 with firefox 7.0.1 and zotero 2.1.10 with iso 8859-1.
Joachim

ajlyon

Select a character encoding other than UTF-8 when exporting.

Edit: Sorry, looks like you did that. But make sure-- that's precisely what causes this...

jcomes

Any idea where to look next? I reset about:config, again I checked the iso 8859-1 export, but still the same errors are there.
Thanks!

dstillman

ü is a Latin-1 character. Select ASCII if you don't want it embedded.

jcomes

Thank you Dan
But there is no ascii export in zotero (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8165/=)
Joachim

dstillman

Yes there is. "English (US-ASCII)"

jcomes

Hey Dan, I am so sorry,
I have Thai, Chinese etc, but not ascii. We are talking about the export settings, aren't we?
Thanks!

adamsmith

It's there, i.e. under export encoding when you export items. Pretty far down the list, between Chinese simplified and Central European.

jcomes

Dear Sir Adam Smith,
unfortunatly I using a german version of zotero :-(
and there is definitly not such an entry. I will switch to the us-version now!

jcomes

Dear Adam
an unvisible hand seems to give you this ascii-export possibility. Also in my fresh us-version of zotero there is nothing to find like this.

dstillman

I'm not sure how the list gets built on all Firefox builds and platforms, but I don't see ASCII in a German Firefox build and do in a US Firefox build.

Can you take a screenshot of the export menu in the US build, upload it somewhere (e.g., imageshack.us), and post a link here?

jcomes

Dear Dan,
now with the us version of firefox and zotero nearly everything is all right -- if the encoding is correct!

https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=tit%3D%C3%A4ngste%26any&currentPosition=2

Here the bibtex export works.

But with library of congress

http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=%C3%A4ngste&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E%2A&CNT=100&type=quick&PID=u91ajD3Ik61lw_7L0eSTboU3Vsx36&SEQ=20111115105650&SID=1

I get a" instead of ä and in the bibtex file I get a? .

An with worldcat

http://www.worldcat.org/title/angste-des-kindes/oclc/19935905&referer=brief_results

I get a instead of ä and also a in the bibtex file.

The search entry "Ängste" is written well on these pages and firefox is able to show äs etc. on other pages.
It is definitely the wrong place to ask, but: Is this an error of this pages or can I fix it with settings in firefox?
Thank you so much
Joachim

dstillman

It's an issue either with the site or with the Zotero's translator for the site, but please start separate threads for those issues.