Zotero adds weird signs when exporting to bibtex (Error ID 1223823834)

cvillforth
When exporting a collection to bibtex, the first line always contains these following weird symbols:

Ôªø

They appear in the first line, after that, the bibtex file does not show any errors. This happens with all collections I tried.

Firefox Version 3.6.3
Zotero Version 2.0.2
MacOSX 10.5.8
  • dstillman
    It's a UTF-8 BOM, which Zotero adds by default. Whether it should is debatable, but, if your text editor or processing tool can't handle it (which it can't if you're seeing those characters), enable "Display character encoding option on export" from the Export pane of the Zotero preferences and select "Unicode (UTF-8 without BOM)" on export.
  • cvillforth
    Thank you!

    It works now.
  • milkytooth
    Nice. I had the same problem before.

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