handling non-English characters at NLM

RE: handling non-English characters at NLM
Author: Martha Verchot    Posted: 07/03/2001 00:22:39 GMT
>From what I can tell just looking at the PubMed side of this question, you could download the data with those diacritical marks by using PubMed's XML/SGML format, but you would probably have to build your own filter in Endnote to handle that format. The following comes from NLM's own information about the MEDLINE database. Notice that the umlaut is also known as a diaeresis so it is one of the supported non-English characters. "The MEDLINE database is in English using standard Latin characters, but contains diacritical marks in author names, titles, vernacular titles and abstracts. The following nine non-spacing diacritical marks are supported in the current MEDLINE database (only in combination with Latin small letters): diaeresis, breve, cedilla, acute, ring-above, macron, circumflex, tilde, and grave. "The MEDLINE Character Database (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/dtd/medline_characters.utf8) shows what characters are multi-byte when they are UTF-8 encoded (last column in the table)." To see the diacritical marks in PubMed, try this: When you are viewing citations in Pubmed, click on the drop-down box next to the button labelled "Display" Choose "XML/SGML" as the display mode. This display mode is ugly to look at but if you save the citations in this mode that information might be retained. Otherwise, it is apparently stripped out. Martha Verchot, Education & Website Coordinator Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham -----Original Message----- From: Peter Underwood Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:08 PM To: Subject: handling non-English characters at NLM EndNote Users, I know that this is not purely an EndNote issue but does anyone have a solution for identifying when non-English characters are supposed to be used in a reference? This particularly comes up in Authors names. If I am editing/reviewing someone else's work and bibliography I may not have the original article in front of me but would like to check accuracy of the references. If you download references from PubMed (NLM) or connect through EndNote non-English characters do not show up although they should be included in a reference (in most formats, I assume, but at least based on AMA manual of style). Interested in how others handle this issue. Example would be the following reference: Michael Schömig and Eberhard Ritz Management of disturbed calcium metabolism in uraemic patients: 1. Use of vitamin D metabolites Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2000 15 : 18-24. The "o" in Schomig should have an umlaut over it but if it comes from NLM it won't. Peter ***** Peter Underwood, Pharm.D. Clinical Pharmacist & Lead Medical Writer Jarosz Regulatory Services, Inc. 1634 W. Wildwood Rd., Whitewater, WI 53190-1512, USA Phone: 262-473-4255 FAX: 262-473-7155 E-mail: Visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.jrsweb.com

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