Problem with French quotation marks

AntonP
Hi,

I have just created (from the American Political Sciences Association - author-date) a "French" citation style. It works well but I still have two problems. Zotero seems to recognize nor the French quotation marks « ... » neither the "bubble" used for issue numbers : nº.
Here is how I coded the quotation marks, were applicable:
prefix="« " suffix=" »".

When I use the tool chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul to preview the outcome of the style, everything works. But when I use the style to cite in Word, the outcome for these symbols is weird (error symbol).

Can anyone help me sorting this out ?
Thanks.

Anton
  • noksagt
    Probably no reason to repost:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4738

    Perhaps you didn't use UTF-8 characters in the CSL or perhaps the font in your bibliography doesn't use UTF-8? And does your style validate?
  • AntonP
    Thanks for your reply. I reposted because I got no answer to my question on the discussion you mention...
    I tried to re-create a csl document, starting from a "clean" APSA style, and encoding it in UTF-8. But I still do not get my "french" quotation marks.
    But obviously I have a problem with my style as, validator.nu says this when I try to validate the csl document:
    Schema error – Cannot find preset schema for namespace: http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl.

    I must say however that I do not understand what this error message means... Any clue or advise would be much appreciate... Thanks!
  • AntonP
    Also, how can I know if my font uses UTF-8? I am currently using Garamond on MSWord.
  • RintzeRintze
    You have to use this link for the schema:

    http://xbiblio.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbiblio/csl/schema/trunk/csl.rnc

    http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl just redirects to a website.
  • AntonP
    Thanks. Actually, the validation does not work for the APSA style available in the Zotero repository neither...
    But, for some mysterious reason, I managed to solve my problem using this code:
    prefix = "« "
    suffix = " »"
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