Bibtex importer does not handle &#039； as apostrophe?

isavour
The issue can be occurred like this:

Firstly conduct a search in Taylor & Francis. (http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?quickLinkJournal=&journalText=&AllField=ecotourism&publication=40001064&pageSize=100&startPage=1&ajaxpagination=standard)

Then check a few articles' checkbox (especially the names with apostrophe ' or quote mark). Then download the *.bib file using the website's "download citation" feature (not the zotero's fetch button near the url).


This *.bib file contains some &#039； strings. After import using zotero, these string are still there. If it's possible to modify the bibtex importer.js file to resolve this issue, and how? Is there any other strings that need to be handled as well?

The # character in the string also causes some trouble when export these citations to JabRef.
  • aurimas
    This *.bib file contains some '； strings. After import using zotero, these string are still there.
    That is expected behavior. The special characters are HTML escaped, which has nothing to do with BibTeX (i.e. it's exported incorrectly by T&F). Regular BibTeX imports should not try to unescape these. This is one of the reasons why using the URL bar icon is a much more preferred way of importing items into Zotero. Are you experiencing issues with the URL bar icon?
    The # character in the string also causes some trouble when export these citations to JabRef.
    you'll have to elaborate. Might help to provide a BibTeX entry that breaks JabRef
  • isavour
    Thanks for the reply. Is there any tools to convert the HTML special characters to normal ones? Because I'm conducting an abstract content analysis. The URL bar icon works fine for the characters, but it's doesn't work well when downloading tens or hundred of items under firefox (or I need to try some times).

    Sorry, I might mixed up with that imported directly to JabRef. The # character without /# seems to be a problem when saving. But I just tested that Zotero seems to auto added the /# already.

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