Bulk-adding English as Language

erdemli

Hi everyone,
Is it possible to bulk-adding English to the empty language cell in Zotero for many works?

johnmy

You could try this JS
https://github.com/redleafnew/zotero-javascripts
01set-item-language-to-en-if-this-field-is-empty.js https://github.com/redleafnew/zotero-javascripts/blob/main/01set-item-language-to-en-if-this-field-is-empty.js

or use this plug in
https://github.com/redleafnew/delitemwithatt

or use zutilo

erdemli

Thank you very much @johnmy
Javascript has worked well.

bwiernik

Note that you will want to enter “en” rather than “English”

erdemli

Thank you @bwiernik.
"En" is enough to capitalize the first letters in the titles.
By the way, why doesn't Zotero auto-capitalize the title if the language is other than English?

bwiernik

Lowercase “en” is the best option for any potential future language-related features that might be added to Zotero.

Sentence vs title casing is pretty specific to only English. Other languages generally have just one capitalization system. So Zotero only applies casing to English.

erdemli

I see. Thank you @bwiernik.