Replace \u2013 with "-" in BibTeX.js

[Wantee Wang]

Hi all,

When i use zotero in FF to import item from Google scholar, the
dash in the pags field is wrongly to be "–"(\u2013). I don't know why,
maybe it is due to my Simplified Chinese FF. Then i checked the files
in translator directory of zotero and found that i can replace it with
"-" in BibTex.js.
It works for me, but i do not know whether there is a better way to
solve the problem. Here is the code https://gist.github.com/2724474

I don't know much about js, would anyone please review the code,
Thanks!

Wantee

[Dan Stillman]

On 5/18/12 6:33 AM, Wantee Wang wrote:
> When i use zotero in FF to import item from Google scholar, the
> dash in the pags field is wrongly to be "–"(\u2013).

An en dash (\u2013) is the correct character to use in page ranges.

[Avram Lyon]

If you have documentation that Chinese bibliographic practice uses a different delimiter, please advise. Otherwise, we believe the n-dash is internationally the norm. If this is causing issues for your usage of something like BibTeX, post to forums.zotero.org with your situation.

Avram

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[Rintze Zelle]

Apparently Russian doesn't use the en-dash: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18480/endash-instead-of-hyphen-in-collapsed-numeric-citations/

(there is a page-range-delimiter term scheduled for inclusion in CSL 1.0.1 so that this delimiter becomes configurable)

Rintze

[Wantee Wang]

Sorry, i hadn't mentioned that, it actually causes problem with my BibTex.

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[Avram Lyon]

This then becomes very hard to do properly upon export to BibTeX or the like, since translators don't have locale info. It seems to me that BibTeX should be able to handle such a common delimiter; if you can't handle it in your environment, try exporting BibTeX from Zotero in an encoding other than UTF-8; that will trigger the conversion to a basic ASCII character.

I don't think we want to enable locale-dependent export settings, and this can probably be handled from within your TeX environment. If you run into more trouble, post to the forums; this isn't really a development question.

Avram