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  • There are packages for Python and Perl called Unidecode, which are basically just big data tables mapping letter characters to a reasonable ascii approximation. As far as I know, there is no official standard covering these (unlike unicode normalisa…
    in special character search Comment by takowl December 13, 2014
  • Ah, I see. Thank-you.
    in Get userID from username Comment by takowl November 15, 2014
  • Yep, without the user ID, I can't get an item, so that doesn't help. Thanks for the information; I'll put OAuth somewhere on my to-do list.
    in Get userID from username Comment by takowl November 15, 2014
  • Thanks, but as I understand it, that would need to be running in the same context as the Zotero client? My code is JS running in the general web browser context, and there doesn't appear to be a Zotero object, even with Zotero for Firefox installed.
    in Get userID from username Comment by takowl November 15, 2014
  • +1 on the original point - I too have author citations with accented characters, e.g. Gómez, which I can't easily search for from the Libreoffice plugin, as my keyboard doesn't have an ó key. It would be great if it could recognise what I'm after wh…
    in special character search Comment by takowl June 10, 2013