Trouble with biblatex export (4.0.17) and accents with Zotero connector

Helfer Thomas
Hi everyone,

I a am a new *french* user of Zotero. First of all, I am really gratefull to everyone who contributed to this great tool.

I noticed two troubes with the biblatex export (Zotero 4.0.17 running on Debian wheezy) :
- a document of type presentation leads to an export failure
- the "É" character leads to trouble with LaTeX (using the inputenc package with the utf8 option) : the character is not recognized (could be a trouble with my LaTeX distribution)

Another trouble concerns the Zotero Connector with Chrome. When importing data from Amazon, accentuated characters don't seem to be handled correctly. Altough displayed correctly in the Zotero windows, when trying to erase an accentued character, it first turns into the not accentued character which can then be erased :
é -> e -> " "
It does seem like there is an encoding issue.

I hope that those bug reports would help someone in improving this wonderfull tool.

Sincerly
  • adamsmith
    Problem 1: Did you try retyping that letter in Zotero? I doubt this is a general issue and Zotero just export É

    Problem 2: we're aware of that. These are decomposed as opposed to precomposed characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character#Comparing_precomposed_and_decomposed_characters As far as I know this mainly affects Worldcat and Amazon.

    For most purposes this shouldn't be a problem (though it does for search and for export in non-utf-8 charsets).

    We're hoping to fix this eventually, but I don't believe this is going to happen very soon.
  • Helfer Thomas
    Thank for your reply, particularly on Problem 2.

    For Problem 1, Zotero does export É, so I guess it is most likely a problem with my tex implementation.

    The last remaining issue is the fact that the biblatex export fails on document of type "presentation".

    Sincerly,
  • Helfer Thomas
    Just a last word about Problem 1, when using bibtex, I don't have any trouble with the É character...
  • adamsmith
    The last remaining issue is the fact that the biblatex export fails on document of type "presentation".
    what do you mean "fails"?
  • Helfer Thomas
    I mean that a dialog appeared telling me that the exportation failed. The created file was truncated up to the only document declared as a Presentation. I then removed this document and everything worked fine.

    However, I just tried to create another document of type Presentation and the exportation was now successful. I just cannot reproduce the failure anymore. I am confused.
  • adamsmith
    if you could isolate a specific failing item that would help. Otherwise this will be hard to troubleshoot.

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