Date field still contains Chinese after switch language to English

balabi

I am using Windows 8 Chinese language. I switched the language of zotero to English according to https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages#switching_languages

But I still got Chinese Month names in "date" field.

see for example
http://pasteboard.co/1mpn7D7w.png
http://pasteboard.co/1mpFdygQ.png

There is a problem with these Chinese month name. That is when I export items to ris and later import the ris into Endnote, the date will not complete

for example "十月 30, 1972" will show as "1972//30" in Endnote.

Please fix this later and point out a temporary workaround

adamsmith

where are you importing/did you import this from? Zotero would for the most part just import the date literally and then try to parse it (unsuccessfully in this case).

balabi

Hi, adamsmith. Well, All my items in zotero are captured on journal website directly via firefox's zotero add-on. So I think this is not the reason.

balabi

Oh, adamsmith. I understand why. It is because my firefox's language is set to Chinese. However, I have already captured hundreds of items in this way. Is there a way to transform the dates of my old items into correct form ? Thank you very much