Special Characters

baluo
As a German, I use a lot of bibliographic entries with special characters, i.e. ö (oe), ä (ae), ü (ue).

In citations, they will be copied, but distorted, e.g. for

"Rüdiger" I will get "Rü ediger", the "ü" (ue) in a smaller font and with a following empty space. This is happening in most of the default styles.

If I delete first the empty space, the smaller-size "ü" (ue), for instance, will be changed into the standard vowel "u" and no u-umlaute, which I have to replace by hand.

Is there anything I can change?


Word2000 and Firefox 4.1., Office XP SP3
  • adamsmith
    How do you get these entries into Zotero? Does this also occur when you type the information in by hand?
    In general Zotero handles Umlauts - in fact all UTF-8 characters - just fine.
  • baluo
    Thanks, Adam, for your response.

    I use a German version of Zotero -- so forgive me if I don't use the correct terms.

    It's either by "Creating a Bibliography from highlighted entries" and copy and past them or by using the Word plugin function to select an entry.
  • adamsmith
    no, the question is how you get the data _into_ Zotero in the first place.
  • ajlyon
    These sound like non-composed umlauts, and probably a bug in Word or a bad font that's having trouble with them.

    Do you see the same problem if you paste the bibliography until, say, a textbox in Firefox?
  • baluo
    > Adam
    I copy them either by hand or automatically via the Zotero function in the browser address of the <worldcat.org> website.
  • baluo
    > ajlyon
    thanks for this hint, you may be right -- I have to check it with another font (have used Trebuchet)
  • poirmw
    Assuming that you are using a Windows machine -- I don't know if you have discovered AUTOHOTKEY or not, but you can solve your problem quite easily using this engine and one of its utilities and dictionaries called AUTOCORRECT. All you need do it install AUTOHOTKEY on your computer and locate AUTOCORRECT -- the dictionary, which you can modify -- in the same directory. Then modify AUTOCORRECT using Notepad or any similar programme. The modifications you need to make have to do with replacing a key combination with the appropriate symbol, i.e., change e' to é, or ' e to è, or c ' to ç , or o " to ö, etc., however you programme the change. Next time you type u " you get ü, or whatever you have changed the key-strokes to mean. And it works with Zotero. It also works well with writing just straight text in MSWord or whatever. I hope that this helps.

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