Zotero and Locals files

salarmehr · September 4, 2012

Dose zotero use https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales files for localization?

Gracile · September 4, 2012

Yes.

Rintze · September 4, 2012

Specifically, the current version of Zotero still uses the CSL 1.0 versions of those files, which can be found at https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/tree/1.0 .

salarmehr · September 4, 2012

Oh!They are in C:\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pw1szwrx.default\extensions\pajoohyar@pajoohyar.ir\chrome\content\zotero\locale\csl

Gracile · September 4, 2012

They're within the extension: Your_Firefox_Profile\extensions\zotero@chnm.gmu.edu\zotero.jar

But what are you trying to do? You don't have to modify these files to create a style.

salarmehr · September 4, 2012

Dose these files perform all localization?
How Zotero find out a document language when its language field are empty or have not standard value?
Is system language used when Zotero makes bibliography?

I want each item in bibliography separately be localized according to its language, so if a book is Persian it bibliography be styled RTL and english books remain LTR

Gracile · September 4, 2012

Read this: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/localization (and especially this: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/localization#csl_styles)

Gracile · September 4, 2012

I want each item in bibliography be localized according to its language, so I a book is Persian it bibliography be styled RTL and english books remain LTR

You need Multilingual Zotero (MLZ). Details here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21316/different-language-for-single-reference-in-bibliography/

fbennett · September 4, 2012

MLZ should serve your requirements, as Gracile notes. There appear to be some unresolved issues in generating RTL citations in a document that is primarily LTR (and vice-versa), raised recently in an inconclusive thread:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/24470/hebrew-law-review-citation-format/#Comment_131294

Any issues can be resolved pretty easily, I think, if you can provide feedback on preferred behaviour.

fbennett · September 4, 2012

As a first step, set "fa" as the value in the Language field after installing MLZ. That should switch the item fields to RTL mode, for that item only. As far as I know, the remaining issues concern citation output only.