Re: [Refdb-users] Endnote to RIS to RefDB troubles

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

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 03:30  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Please find a real simple Perl script attached that converts the UTF-8
> version of your data to something useful.

You mean "MacRoman"?  By default Endnote saves to MacRoman on the Mac, 
and Latin-1 is unsuitable because it doesn't support some characters 
that I tend to use a lot (like curly quotes!).  So ideally I'd like 
RefDB to convert from MacRoman to utf and send it to, in my case, 
PostgreSQL.

This raises the question: is it possible for the import system to do 
this?  For example, a Mac user saves to an RIS file, and wants to 
import that file into RefDB that is using a unicode enabled version of 
SQLite.  Or someone gets a utf-8 encoded risX file, but wants to import 
into MySQL and store in Latin-1.  Possible for the import system to 
handle this?

Bruce