Strange character appear between pages numbers...

thedream
Hello,

I am using Word 2007 with Zotéro 4.29.0.17.
In the Zotero bibliography, a strange character appear between pages number instead of a dash "-". It seems to be a short dash "‑" that Word does not understand.

Here is a picture:
http://imgur.com/a/PHQJj

How can I prevent this ? I have tried to retype the dash character between the pages numbers, like "263-265", but it does not solve the issue.
Perhaps am I doing wrong something to specify the pages numbers range ?

Marc
  • bwiernik
    What font are you using?
  • adamsmith
    and which citation style?
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited April 4, 2017
    The reason for the questions is that there is no single hyphen/dash- appearing mark but are several "flavors" or types of dash and of different lengths. Some fonts will not display some of the dash types and instead will insert a place-holding character such as what you see in your document. Some styles request a very-narrow-dash AKA 'figure dash' between page numbers. If I ruled the world I'd insist that fonts include these characters or at least substitute one of the other appropriate dash types instead. See:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

    While I'm being lofty, I'd convene a ruling panel that would set citation style standards and henceforth there would only be — oh, never-mind...
  • DWL-SDCA
    I haven't thought about character sets for years but I wonder if this could be UTF-8 vs. Windows-1252 or is that not relevant here?
  • adamsmith
    This should all be UTF-8. I'll want to see the answers to the questions above, but I think one possibility is the non-breaking hyphen that's common in France and not as widely available in fonts.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Yes! I forgot about the non-breaking hyphen. On a distantly related topic, that and the non-breaking space can get really garbled by PubMed xml export.
  • thedream
    Thank you for all your answers.
    I am using the Calibri Font. I have tried to change the font to Arial, but nothing changed.
    I am using the last version of the APA 6th:
    https://www.zotero.org/styles/apa
    I have tried with another style different from APA, and in fact, I have no issue.
    The style is in UTF-8, with no modifications.

    Any ideas ?
  • adamsmith
    And you're using the style in English or another language?
  • clydepaquin
    I have the same kind of trouble... in Word for Mac 2011, the normal hyphen cannot appear in Times New Roman, it changes to "American Type Writer" or "Monaco", it's a kind of code problem I think...
  • clydepaquin
    And it's just in the footnotes... by the way I just highlighted all a footnote and put it on Times N. R. and the hyphen changed to "Baskerville" so it's like hazardous, like it takes any other font that works but not Times N. R.
  • thedream
    I am using the style in French.
  • clydepaquin
    edited April 5, 2017
    Me too. I tried to put the Style in english format for the footnotes but doesn't change anything...
  • clydepaquin
    Just realized that it's only with the numbers... if there's a hyphen in a word, in the footnotes, the font is correct. Maybe there's something to understand there?
  • adamsmith
    Zotero does tranform hyphens in numbers, so I'm not surprised this is specific, but I'd really like some more systematic info on this:
    Which styles exactly have you tried this on? Have you tried this with styles that default to English? How about when you create citations directly from Zotero rather than the Word add-on?
  • clydepaquin
    It's in the "footnote" style, in french it's "note de bas de page", I tried with a new style that I created and it's the same thing... it's also for any type of document in Zotero, yes I tried with the default in English and it's the same, hmm... I don't remember how to create citations directly from Zotero...

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