Zotero Word plugin bibliography sorting

schwarzjr

After a lot of cursing I found out that the sorting of the bibliography entries in Word 2007 (currently 3.1.4 & 2.1.10 zotero plugins, but worked the same in the older versions) is influenced by the "Language for non-Unicode programs" settings in Windows 7 (not sure about other win versions).

Example: In Czech "ch" is a single letter following letter "h" in the alphabet. But obviously when writing an English paper, I want to have authors starting with "Ch" among those whose name starts with "C". The only way how to achieve it is to change the above-mentioned language settings to English, which requires a reboot and causes a lot of trouble with other software.

Am I missing something? Would it be possible to sort according to some other settings which would be easier to change? Thanks!

adamsmith

so setting the bibliography export locale doesn't change this?
http://www.zotero.org/support/hidden_prefs#export_and_citation_settings

schwarzjr

It doesn't, already have it changed to en-US.

Btw when looking at "My Library" in Firefox and sorting by Creator, the items are also sorted according to the Czech locale. But this is no big deal.

fbennett

In Firebox, the processor should be calling an applicationLocale() method to the sort collation, and I think that should be grabbing the Firefox locale. This isn't quite right; when default-locale is set in the style itself, the collation should be based on that instead.

I think Simon is planning to offer some locale selection options in the UI. To avoid confusion, I'll wait until that's been worked out before making adjustments in the processor.

schwarzjr

So, do I understand it correctly that there is no way how to deal with it now? Other than via the above-mentioned windows settings?

schwarzjr

Any development on this issue? Is there anything I can do to help to resolve this problem?