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Problems with language specific letters in Windows XP
Author: Andreas Kroh    Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:12:23 +0100
Dear list, Since migrating my ProCite5 database to a Windows XP environment I have many Problems with the way ProCite treats foreign language characters (Romanian characters, French diacritics, German quotation marks, etc.) 1) They are displayed improperly in the list view 2) They are converted to strange symbols when copy&pasting from word processor) 3) They are incorrectly output via the "print bibliography" option Additionally, the "Subset"-drop down list which allowed to switch between Western, Mid European, Russian, Greek, East European, etc. subsets of the chosen font does not work anymore. Regardless of the chosen subset it offers the same choice of characters. The hints provided earlier in this list under the topic "FRENCH DIACRITICS WITH PROCITE" (http://lists.adeptscience.co.uk/procite/procite_Apr_2003/thid_6a9132e5c9be1 cf5002a6aae86ee3d6f.html) does actually not solve the problem (it works only for French symbols included in the MS Sans Serif font) Any helpful advice would be highly welcome Andreas Kroh NHM Vienna

Re: Problems with language specific letters in Windows XP
Author: Mark Fenton    Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:58 -0000
Andreas, Whilst this may not work or help, I would ensure you had the Microsoft language packs installed on your PC first. My reason for saying this is is something worked before, and does not now, then it might be operating system specific rather than a Procite problem, and not having the language packs have caused us problems in other programs. We have had lots of similar problems with downloads from non-english language databases, which continue because Procite does not support unicode text. Kind regards, Mark Fenton Cochrane Schizophrenia Group University of Leeds UK -----Original Message----- From: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List on behalf of Andreas Kroh Sent: Wed 16/11/2005 09:12 To: Cc: Subject: Problems with language specific letters in Windows XP Dear list, Since migrating my ProCite5 database to a Windows XP environment I have many Problems with the way ProCite treats foreign language characters (Romanian characters, French diacritics, German quotation marks, etc.) 1) They are displayed improperly in the list view 2) They are converted to strange symbols when copy&pasting from word processor) 3) They are incorrectly output via the "print bibliography" option Additionally, the "Subset"-drop down list which allowed to switch between Western, Mid European, Russian, Greek, East European, etc. subsets of the chosen font does not work anymore. Regardless of the chosen subset it offers the same choice of characters. The hints provided earlier in this list under the topic "FRENCH DIACRITICS WITH PROCITE" (http://lists.adeptscience.co.uk/procite/procite_Apr_2003/thid_6a9132e5c9be1 cf5002a6aae86ee3d6f.html) does actually not solve the problem (it works only for French symbols included in the MS Sans Serif font) Any helpful advice would be highly welcome Andreas Kroh NHM Vienna

Re: Problems with language specific letters in Windows XP
Author: Geoff Carver    Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:18:00 GMT
i have had various problems too, but not sure what i actually did to solve it i think i have the default procite settings at "times roman" because i have the largest range of characters there then i think i have to actually change the font to the "times roman cyrillic" or equivalent to get cyrillic up, or greek... i still usually get something wierd in the directory list, but it usually prints out OK in the end (sometimes with some tweeking of fonts in the final text: changing from "arial" to "arial cyrillic" for example) "Andreas Kroh" schrieb: > Dear list, > > Since migrating my ProCite5 database to a Windows XP environment I have many > Problems with the way ProCite treats foreign language characters (Romanian > characters, French diacritics, German quotation marks, etc.) > 1) They are displayed improperly in the list view > 2) They are converted to strange symbols when copy&pasting from word > processor) > 3) They are incorrectly output via the "print bibliography" option > > Additionally, the "Subset"-drop down list which allowed to switch between > Western, Mid European, Russian, Greek, East European, etc. subsets of the > chosen font does not work anymore. Regardless of the chosen subset it offers > the same choice of characters. > > The hints provided earlier in this list under the topic "FRENCH DIACRITICS > WITH PROCITE" > (http://lists.adeptscience.co.uk/procite/procite_Apr_2003/thid_6a9132e5c9be1 > cf5002a6aae86ee3d6f.html) does actually not solve the problem (it works only > for French symbols included in the MS Sans Serif font) > > Any helpful advice would be highly welcome > > Andreas Kroh > NHM Vienna >

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