I am facing problems when I import RIS files of references with Unicode characters from JSTOR to Endnote.
E.g. the title of this article appears in my Endnote library like as in attachment 1
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44476571
Especially in the case of articles with titles in Greek, almost nothing appears. E.g. for this article what appears in attachment 2
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24518722
Has anyone faced the same the same problem and had found a solution?
Thank you!
G.
Also in the case of names with Unicode characters, the name of the author appears in two lines like this
x15e,
ahin, Mustafa
instead of
Şahin, Mustafa
Thanks again!
Dear Leanne,
You are amazing! I am deeply grateful for your kind help! Your kind help is deeply appreciated!
Thank you!
All the best,
G.
I am sorry for coming back to the topic but apparently, it seems that I have to make an important compromise by using BibTex.
If I choose your solution, while Unicode appears perfectly, the BibTex file does not download important information of the reference as the abstract or the Reviewed Item.
It really troubles me why Endnote faces such a problem with UTF-8 encoding. At the moment, I try to test all the import methods for RIS, but it seems in vain.
Thank you!
The problem is not on the RIS but on the importing of RIS to Endnote. I tried importing RIS on a different reference manager and there were no problems with Greek and German characters.
Maybe the RIS looks like nonsense when you open it with notepad, but there are just the HTML Entities (hex) of Unicode Characters, which they should make sense when Endnote turns them back to Unicode. In my opinion, the real question is why the “Text translation: UTF-8” does not work when I import RIS files.
I think that the order of first and last name is not really an issue as it could be changed in Edit-> Import Filters-> Edit X Filter - > “Author Parsing”.
I don’t think that merging or downloading from somewhere else could be practical solutions as I am using JSTOR on daily basis and for hundreds of references.
I would appreciate an alternative to the to the Unicode transformation.
Please, allow me to say that your knowledge of Endnote makes you more than a simple user. You have helped me in my Endnote endeavors also in the past. I am deeply grateful to you.
I will do as you suggested and I will email Technical Support.
Thank you!
I created this Python notebook to transform HTML entities to Unicode Characters.
https://goo.gl/YuwzeK