Bug? Unicode errors when getting authors from ISBN

TerenceEden · January 19, 2022

The ISBN of 9781000368918 should return the authors "Maria-Teresa Lepeley" and "Nicolas Majluf"

Instead, it gets "Mar??a Teresa Lepeley" and "Nicol??s S Majluf"

Which ISBN lookup service does Zotero use? It may be a problem with the source data, or some UTF-8 mangling somewhere.

Thanks!

Screenshot at https://twitter.com/edent/status/1483818795244437506

TerenceEden · January 19, 2022

The data coming back from the API is:
```
{
"creators": [
{
"creatorType": "author",
"firstName": "Mar??a Teresa",
"lastName": "Lepeley"
},
{
"creatorType": "author",
"firstName": "Nicol??s S",
"lastName": "Majluf"
}
]
}
```
Seems to be from WorldCat? But the error doesn't appear on their site that I can see. https://www.worldcat.org/title/soft-skills-for-human-centered-management-and-global-sustainability/oclc/1226556103&referer=brief_results

bwiernik · January 19, 2022

There seems to be a problem with non-ASCII characters in WorldCat’s data generation pipeline. As you can see, the data are fine on the site, but get garbled when it generates JSON or RIS data. You might try to report this issue with their API to WorldCat.

dstillman · January 19, 2022

@TerenceEden: You don't even have to (and shouldn't) mention Zotero. You can just tell them you're trying to export to RIS and getting literal question marks in the output.

(This is a widespread issue with data on their site — there've been a bunch of recent reports of this.)