Retrieving item from worldcat using ISBN results in encoding errors ("é" -> "??")
I just got started with zotero. I tried to "add by identifier" with this id:
id=978-2-07-273067-2
By default, I think this uses worldcat. It's this item: https://www.worldcat.org/title/misrables/oclc/1146275554&referer=brief_results
So the title is "Les misérables".
But in the zotero interface, I instead see "Les mis??rables" (for 1/2 seconds I see the correct title but it switches to this afterwards).
Is this a known bug?
id=978-2-07-273067-2
By default, I think this uses worldcat. It's this item: https://www.worldcat.org/title/misrables/oclc/1146275554&referer=brief_results
So the title is "Les misérables".
But in the zotero interface, I instead see "Les mis??rables" (for 1/2 seconds I see the correct title but it switches to this afterwards).
Is this a known bug?
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If I paste 978-2-07-273067-2 into Add Item by Identifier, I get "Les misérables" with "BnF ISBN" in the Library Catalog field.
WorldCat serves bad data for accents, which you can see it if you go to Cite in WorldCat, save a RIS file (EndNote format) to disk, and open it in a text editor — the "??" is in the actual data. But that's not what's being used for me, and if you're seeing the title actually change in the interface that sounds like a plugin doing something.
If you can't figure it out, we'd want to see a Debug ID for this happening.
I just started using zotero so I don't do anything fancy, still trying it out really. No plugin.
D623256905
* deleted the entries
* started it from the command-line with zotero -ZoteroDebugText
and stopped / restarted it a few times, and now I cannot reproduce this anymore. I have no clue what fixed it...
Do recall doing anything that might have caused that to happen?
I've also tried several times to add the item, leading to about 8 duplicates, but they're not supposed to interfere with each other, right?
I think your explanation about the BnF unavailability is the most plausible. If I add 127.0.0.1 bnf.fr to my /etc/hosts I can reproduce the é -> ?? character replacement. I'll know for next time!