Re: [Refdb-users] character encoding stuff

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 02:08  PM, Mar...@en... wrote:

> In case you do not already know, be aware that microsoft software
> (Word etc.) frequently uses non-latin1 characters like the
> (in-)famous "smart quote", which infest web pages for instance.

I actually didn't know that.  In this case the problem is in the 
Endnote text export.  My workaround was this, which was the only way I 
could get it to work:

1) export from Endnote as RTF.

2) open RTF in TextEdit (a text editor on OS X that can read RTF)

3) Copy and paste into jEdit.

This doesn't even begin to solve all the other problems with Endnote's 
RIS export:

1)  It can't export multiple keywords in the proper format, but gives 
you something like:

KW  - one
two
three
N1  - etc.

2)  Endnote has no support for start and end pages, but only a page 
range.

3)  various miscellaneous problems with added  "crap," which may be 
Endnote bugs, or problems with the export filter (though I don't see 
any).

4)  RIS has no support for Endnote "type" fields (which are in essence 
reference subtypes).

5)  Endnote does not have support for formatting dates, so one must 
input them as they are to be formatted.  So, what is "10" in RIS is 
"October" in Endnote, and whatever it exports.

It'd be nice if RefDB (or some other tool) could convert from 
Refer/Endnote formats to RIS.  This is a really painful process to go 
through!

Bruce