Proper encoding format in details and correct export, or How to write everything in UTF?

zroutik · September 8, 2009

I'm still not really able to cope with the following problem. If a title contains a non-ASCII character I'm not able to write it properly and export it properly.

e.g.
title in ASCII: Wide-Range Dielectric Spectroscopy of Relaxor Type Ferroelectric Material Pb(Fe2/3W1/3)O3-PbTiO3
title in half-UTF: Wide-Range Dielectric Spectroscopy of Relaxor Type Ferroelectric Material Pb(Fe₂/₃W1/₃)O₃-PbTiO₃ (note that the slash in chemicals is incorrect)

TMK, there is no UTF character for "subscript slash" mostly used for chemicals.

I would like to hear how to write encoded characters to item details. For me there are some possibilities, which lacks full support on more lines:
- no encoding other than ASCII -- when exporting and citing, I need to check for incorrect chars (index)
- UFT if find, ASCII others -- the export is half good, the same checkup than the previous point
- latex encoding everywhere -- looks crappy, solves every character

This problem was mentioned in the last posts here http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2820/bug-bibtex-export-dont-escape-latex-special-chars-in-url-field/#Item_7

noksagt · September 8, 2009

There is no good way to handle this in Zotero yet, but there are numerous discussions on rich-text support, which is planned; e.g. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3875