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Character set problems with RIS export
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Author: Pacificw
Posted: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:32:37 -0500
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We are having difficulty with the RIS export functionality dropping non standard alpha characters on export.
For example when we export comma delimited it maintains the accented characters.
"UNPB","4218","In the Land of Refuge: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Shíráz","Mirza Afnan H;Rabbani A;","2008 Forthcoming","","of;","NOT IN FILE","","","","","","","","","","","Hong Kong","Juxta Press","","","","","","","","By Mírzá Habíbu'lláh AfnánTranslated by Ahang
As it does when we export XML
<record>
<database name="babism"
path="c:">babism</database>
<source-app name="Reference Manager 11.0" version="11.0.1.1709">Reference Manager 11.0</source-app>
<rec-number>4218</rec-number>
<ref-type name="Unpublished Work">34</ref-type>
<contributors>
<authors>
<author>
<style face="normal" font="default">Mirza Afnan,Habibu'llah</style>
</author>
<author>
<style face="normal" font="default"> Rabbani,Ahang</style>
</author>
</authors>
</contributors>
<titles>
<title>
<style face="normal" font="default">In the Land of Refuge: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Shíráz</style>
</title>
</titles>
<periodical/>
<pages end="" start="">-</pages>
<reprint-status status="no-file"/>
<keywords>
<keyword>
<style face="normal" font="default">of</style>
</keyword>
</keywords>
<dates>
<year Day="0" Month="0" Year="2008">2008=Forthcoming</year>
</dates>
<pub-location>
<style face="normal" font="default">Hong Kong</style>
</pub-location>
<publisher>
<style face="normal" font="default">Juxta Press</style>
</publisher>
<abstract>
<style face="bold" font="default">By Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán</style>
<style face="normal" font="default"/>
<style face="bold" font="default">Translated by Ahang Rabbani</style>
</abstract>
<urls/>
</record>
However the RIS export fails to generate these accented characters
TY - UNPB
ID - 4218
T1 - In the Land of Refuge: The Genesis of the Bah '¡ Faith in Sh¡r z
A1 - Mirza Afnan,Habibu'llah
A1 - Rabbani,Ahang
Y1 - 2008///Forthcoming
KW - of
RP - NOT IN FILE
CY - Hong Kong
PB - Juxta Press
N2 - By M¡rz Hab¡bu'll h Afn n Translated by Ahang Rabbani
ER -
In the case of the N2 field it looks like it has “converted” the í but dropped/replaced the á
According to the manual the RIS specification permits ANSI characters 32-255
“The characters allowed in the reference ID fields can be in the set
“0” through “9,” or “A” through “Z.” The characters allowed in
all other fields can be in the set from “space” (character 32) to
character 255 in the Windows ANSI Character Set. Note,
however, that the asterisk (character 42) is not allowed in the
author, keywords, or periodical name fields.”
So we attempted to add a set of symbols to the URL field of the above record
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~€‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹ŒŽ¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
And this is the RIS export
TY - UNPB
ID - 4218
T1 - In the Land of Refuge: The Genesis of the Bah '¡ Faith in Sh¡r z
A1 - Mirza Afnan,Habibu'llah
A1 - Rabbani,Ahang
Y1 - 2008///Forthcoming
KW - of
RP - NOT IN FILE
CY - Hong Kong
PB - Juxta Press
N2 - By M¡rz Hab¡bu'll h Afn n Translated by Ahang Rabbani
UR - !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~__'Ÿ".ÅÎ^%S<O_Z_ª©îøñýüïæôú÷û§¯¬«ó¨·µ¶ÇŽ’€ÔÒÓÞÖ×ØÑ¥ãàâ噞ëéêšíèá… ƒÆ„†‘‡Š‚ˆ‰¡Œ‹Ð¤•¢“ä”ö›—£–ìç˜
ER -
So it looks like RIS is mangling the character set. Even if we enter ASCII character set symbols the effect is the same.
Is there a work around? Specific font to use?
Cheers,
Steve Cooney
"pacificw"
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