On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:07 AM, James Owen wrote:
Yes, Science Direct uses the Western (Mac OS Roman) encoding in its downloadable citations.
It may not be Mac OS Roman, either, since that encoding will /always/ give you something. It overlaps with ASCII and parts of other encodings, also, so it's hard to tell when the results are wrong.
If you tell BibDesk to open it, via the open.. menu command, instead of the double-click or drag and drop methods, you will be able to change the encoding, and then be able to open the citation correctly.
Correct. However, you can also drop the file on the main window and let BibDesk guess at the encoding, which will likely end up using Mac OS Roman anyway if UTF-8 doesn't work. NB: this does not work correctly unless you're using a semi-recent nightly build (at least on Leopard).
You then drag and drop to your main BibDesk library. Is there any way to be able to change the encoding for open, when using a double-click to open a downloaded .bib file, on an occasional basis, i.e. for all ScienceDirect citations?
No. It's hard to see how that would be any better than changing it in prefs or using the open panel...
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