delimiter-precedes-et-al="always" dose not work in locale zh-CN

snoopyzhao

Hi there,

I use delimiter-precedes-et-al="always" in the macro author:
<macro name="author">
<names variable="author">
<name initialize-with=" " name-as-sort-order="all" sort-separator=" " delimiter-precedes-et-al="always"/>
</names>
</macro>
If I remove default-locale="zh-CN" from the style, the author listed as:

Priester J H, Moritz S C, Espinosa K, et al.

However, If I don't remove default-locale="zh-CN" from the style, the author listed as:

Priester J H, Moritz S C, Espinosa K等.

等 is et al in Chinese.

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

Best,
Jinsong

fbennett

That's a bug in the processor: it's quashing punctuation adjacent of kanji in names. I'll looking into it, and should have a fix out in a week or so.

fbennett

In "Priester J H, Moritz S C, Espinosa K等," should 「等」be preceded by a comma-space, or just a comma?

myhan

It should be a comma and a space

snoopyzhao

@fbennett
Thanks for confirm the bug.

It should be a comma and a space, like:
Priester J H, Moritz S C, Espinosa K, 等

BTW, I don't know how to post code or something like in verbatim style...

fbennett

No problem - that's all I needed to know. I've fixed this in the processor, and will release it tomorrow. The fix will appear in a future Zotero release - if not the next one, then soon.

snoopyzhao

It's great. Thanks.

jiangshen

@fbennett Maybe I have found out what causes the bug. It should be include the period when translating the "et al." to other languages (http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/1.0.1/translating-locale-files.html), but the translators miss it in https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/blob/master/locales-zh-CN.xml . I think it should be "等." rather than "等" at line 41.

fbennett

No, it was pure Chinese text that caused the problem. It was a bug, and in the next Zotero release, pure Chinese text will work fine there.