Preferences remain stuck

rastogi
Some time ago I was tinkering with my character encoding settings and managed to figure out that I needed to export in UTF-8 for extended Latin output to BibTex (e.g. é, è). At that time, however, I mistakenly changed the 'Import Character Encoding' (Preferences -> Export) to UTF-8 as well. Now when I try to change it back to 'auto-detect', it doesn't change back. I also tried changing to UTF-16, but that doesn't work either. In a word, Zotero now seems to be stuck assuming all of my imported files will be in UTF-8.

Any ideas why this is happening? I am using the latest update from Zotero - 4.0.14 . I have tried the usual tricks of shut-down, restart, etc.

Thanks,

P
  • aurimas
    Yes, looks like this is currently bugged. In order to change the import character encoding (other preferences don't seem to be affected) you need to first open the Advanced tab, then go back to the Export tab and change the setting. The new value should then save.

    This should be fixed in the next Zotero release.
  • rastogi
    Aha... that fixed it! Thanks for the quick response - much appreciated. Just for future tinkering, if I did decide to change the value of the 'string' in the advanced settings (import.charset), like to UTF-16, where would I find the proper string to represent each of the character encoding types?

    Thanks again,

    P
  • aurimas
    I guess you ended up going to Advanced tab -> open about:config and changed the property value manually. What I meant is that you can open Zotero preferences, go to the Advanced tab, then go to Export tab (not sub-tab) and use the drop-down menu that you've always used. The point is to open the Advanced tab before using the menu.

    But as I said, this should be fixed in the next Zotero release that it's planned to go out this week, so you probably don't need to worry about it too much.

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