Umlauts and «Rename File from Parent Metadata» (breaks indexing?)

waddell

Report ID: 657377944

a) Cosmetic?: Umlauts sometimes make it into the filename.
b) Ugly (needs confirmation): Indexing sometimes does, sometimes doesn't work on files with umlauts in their filename.

Reproducible:
In the following entry (see bibtex-export below, annote-field replaced) the umlaut «ü» from «überregionaler» makes it into the PDF-filename when using the function «Rename File from Parent Metadata».

Workaround (somewhat obvious):
Change title avoiding umlauts, use «Rename File from Parent Metadata», change title back.

Not reproducible:
The umlaut in the filename broke indexing initially, however when I renamed the file using the above workaround-procedure and indexed the file, re-introducing the umlaut into the filename didn't break re-indexing the file.

@inproceedings{olshausen_kommunikationswege_2002,
address = {Stuttgart},
series = {Geographica Historica},
title = {Kommunikationswege und die Entstehung überregionaler Heiligtümer: das Fallbeispiel Delphi},
volume = {17},
isbn = {3515080538, 9783515080538},
booktitle = {Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums, 7, 1999},
publisher = {Franz Steiner Verlag},
author = {Beate {Wagner-Hasel}},
editor = {Eckart Olshausen and Holger Sonnabend},
year = {2002},
pages = {160--180},
annote = {…}
}

dstillman

This is a known issue. There's nothing wrong with extended characters in filenames on modern OSes, but there's a Mozilla bug that breaks indexing of those files.

however when I renamed the file using the above workaround-procedure and indexed the file, re-introducing the umlaut into the filename didn't break re-indexing the file.

Actually it probably did—I see an error message in the debug output when I try to reindex—but it doesn't clear the old data before the error, so the file stays indexed.

Note that files not added through translators should be indexed automatically when you first add them to Zotero if the original filename has no extended characters. So this should only be related to "Rename File from Parent Metadata" if you use that option and then sync to another computer. The full-text index isn't currently synced, and the extended characters in the synced file will prevent indexing on the other computer.