Christiaan, If you deleted all the data, think how much quicker everything would run! :-)
Actually, I was thinking something more along the lines of a setting in the preferences that says, "Replace non-printing characters with ~ " or something similar to what BBEdit does to clean-up troublesome characters. See my reply to Adam in a follow-up e-mail. Thanks again for your reply, Christiaan! -Cloy > We're certainly not going to automatically delete data, if that's what > you're proposing. That's simply not an option. > > Christiaan > > On 19 Feb 2008, at 4:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I raised this issue several months ago, but don't think I made >> myself clear. >> >> A problem I've run into is that if I import a reference with >> non-plain-text (Unicode?) character (an en-dash, an em-dash, an open >> or >> closed quote) in the abstract, it will require a "save as" in a >> different >> file format with a different file name. This occurs when using the >> default >> Western ASCII file format. >> >> I frequently recommend BibDesk to students and fellow scholars. >> However, I >> am loath to do so with anyone but the most technical -- this is a >> serious >> frustration for the average user, who will be confused by the issue. >> >> I typically cut the abstract, paste it into BBEdit and run the "Zap >> Gremlins" command to replace/remove the offending characters. >> >> I've tried to manually remove these characters from the abstract in >> BibDesk, but I find that sometimes they can be invisible. >> >> It would be great to have a "strip out gremlins" option to >> automatically >> convert these. >> >> I typically use EBSCO to retrive citations, and I'd guess this problem >> arises in about 20 percent of the time. >> >> Thanks again to all who work on development and support for BibDesk >> -- it >> really is an amazing tool. >> >> -c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
