Bibliography updates with an unrecognize font.

[DBA]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When I updated my bibliography using 'Update Field', an unrecognizable font appears as follows:

BEFORE:
NWMB. (2010, Feb. 13). Draft Allocation Policy by NWMB. Retrieved Feb. 13, 2010 from NWMB: http://www.nwmb.com/english/events/ae/52947e0ade57a09e4a1386d08f17b656/submission_en.php?partner_id=1&folder_id=1619

AFTER:
NWMB. (2010 йил 13-Feb.). Draft Allocation Policy by NWMB. Retrieved 2010 йил 13-Feb. from NWMB: http://www.nwmb.com/english/events/ae/52947e0ade57a09e4a1386d08f17b656/submission_en.php?partner_id=1&folder_id=1619

If a 'Save' is done and I quite Word, the change is not reversible.

I have ensured that the "Match font with keyboard" is off BUT this was not done when first setting up word.

I have also tried a suggestion to select "Toggle Field Codes..." and add \l (the letter l) followed by the lcid code of the language I
want.

Neither has worked in correcting the problem.

Is there anyone out there who has encountered the same problem AND found a solution that worked?

Thanks!

 

[Michel Bintener]

This sounds very much like a bug that has been reported here (and that I
have noticed myself), which, for unknown reasons, causes Word to insert
Cyrillic characters in the citations or bibliographies.

Microsoft is aware of the issue, but there are currently no workarounds,
sorry.

 

[DBA]

That's what I suspected. There is a 'sort of' workaround. I went to http://bibword.codeplex.com/ and downloaded a couple of styles and tried them out. The Harvard (Anglia) suits my purposes. It does not result in the same 'strange' symbols appearing so the problem must exist somewhere between Word itself and its XML files.

This sounds very much like a bug that has been reported here (and that I
> have noticed myself), which, for unknown reasons, causes Word to insert
> Cyrillic characters in the citations or bibliographies.
>
> Microsoft is aware of the issue, but there are currently no workarounds,
> sorry.
>

> > Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
> > Intel When I updated my bibliography using 'Update Field', an
> > unrecognizable font appears as follows:
> >
> > BEFORE:
> > NWMB. (2010, Feb. 13). Draft Allocation Policy by NWMB. Retrieved Feb.
> > 13, 2010 from NWMB:
> > http://www.nwmb.com/english/events/ae/52947e0ade57a09e4a1386d08f17b656/submission_en.php?partner_id=1&folder_id=1619
> >
> >
> >
> > AFTER:
> > NWMB. (2010 йил 13-Feb.). Draft Allocation Policy by
> > NWMB. Retrieved 2010 йил 13-Feb. from NWMB:
> > http://www.nwmb.com/english/events/ae/52947e0ade57a09e4a1386d08f17b656/submission_en.php?partner_id=1&folder_id=1619
> >
> >
> >
> > If a 'Save' is done and I quite Word, the change is not reversible.
> >
> > I have ensured that the "Match font with keyboard" is off BUT this was
> > not done when first setting up word.
> >
> > I have also tried a suggestion to select "Toggle Field Codes..." and add
> > \l (the letter l) followed by the lcid code of the language I
> > want.
> >
> > Neither has worked in correcting the problem.
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who has encountered the same problem AND found
> > a solution that worked?
> >
> > Thanks!

>
> --
> Michel Bintener
> Microsoft MVP (Macintosh)
>
> *** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
>

 

[John McGhie]

Could be. It's entirely possible that the XML file itself is the problem.
The XSL templates are capable of switching language or character set.

Either way, I wish they would hurry up and fix it

Cheers

That's what I suspected. There is a 'sort of' workaround. I went to
http://bibword.codeplex.com/ and downloaded a couple of styles and tried them
out. The Harvard (Anglia) suits my purposes. It does not result in the same
'strange' symbols appearing so the problem must exist somewhere between Word
itself and its XML files.

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Could it be that the language of those sources is set to some language which
uses Cyrillic characters by default? Word tries to localize the citations
and bibliography by providing localized strings to the xsl. So common text
like 'Last accessed' might show up als 'Laatst bezocht' if your language was
set to Dutch.

Yves

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Or it could be the xslt engine. They seem to have implemented a separate
xslt engine for the Mac rather than porting the one from Windows (msxml). As
a result, sorting is broken in case the sorting string contains accented
characters for example.

Yves