Charset for Lookup-Engines

david.lohner

Hi there,

I created a lookup engine for the library of my university (www.kit.edu) – but because we're in Germany, many publications have characters like ä,ö or ü in it.
The engine screws them up; and due to the fact I'm no developer or something similar, I have no idea how to fix that. Is there anybody out who can help me?

Here's the code for the lookup engine:

{
"name": "KIT-Katalog plus",
"alias": "KIT-Katalog plus",
"icon": "http://www.kit.edu/img/intern/kit_logo_V2_de.svg",
"_urlTemplate": "http://services.bibliothek.kit.edu/primo/start.php?query={z:title?}+{rft:aufirst?}+{rft:aulast?}+{rft:year?}+{rft:jtitle?}&tab=kit_pc&sort=date",
"description": "KIT-Katalog plus",
"hidden": false,
"_urlParams": [],
"_urlNamespaces": {
"rft": "info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal",
"z": "http://www.zotero.org/namespaces/openSearch#",
"": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
},
"_iconSourceURI": "http://www.kit.edu/img/intern/kit_logo_V2_de.svg"
},


For all German users: I've made a video about that: https://davidlohner.de/david-der-doktorand-21-zotero-lookup-engine-fuer-die-kit-bibliothek/

bwiernik

What exactly do you mean by “screw them uo”? Can you give an example?

david.lohner

When I try to look up this title:
"Die wissenschaftliche Präsentation : Konzept - Visualisierung - Durchführung"

the search in my library says (look for the umlauts)

"Die wissenschaftliche Präsentation : Konzept Visualisierung Durchführung Henning Lobin"

I guess there's something wrong with the text encoding (utf8, ISO-Latin-whatever). But I don't know, where I can set this encoding; neither in Zotero nor in the lookup engines code.