Style does not load locale

[tferianc]

Hi, i have changed and add dots on every form="short" in locales,
https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/blob/master/locales-sk-SK.xml
but the style doesnt load it with dots as it should.
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/iso690-author-date-sk.csl

Where is the problem? Any suggestion? Thanks.

[rmzelle]

Are you using Zotero, Mendeley, or another program?

[adam3smith]

In Zotero, CSL locales are pulled in before every new release, so this won't work before 4.0.18

[tferianc]

Thanks... What about Mendeley? It seems it doesnt load locales at all.

[adam3smith]

You're right, Mendeley doesn't currently use locales at all. They know about that and have promised to fix it.
@cpina - can you give us a status update about this? Going to happen any time soon?

[rmzelle]

It doesn't: http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/1519214-csl-issue-mendeley-seems-to-ignore-localization

I also don't know how frequently Mendeley updates its CSL locale files.

The simplest workaround would be to basically include the entire sk-SK locale file within the style, with no xml:lang value on <locale> within the style.

[adam3smith]

(though I don't think we'd accept that as a style on the repository, would we?)

[rmzelle]

Like https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rmzelle/9474163/raw/aa8b14528e5d76761c001204622d5a42f62a31f4/gistfile1.txt

(and no, we don't want styles like that in the repository, since Mendeley should just support locales properly)

[tferianc]

Well thanks, I will wait till Zotero update 👍

[rmzelle]

That workaround should work for Zotero as well, by the way.

[tferianc]

Yes, I already using it, thanks :) but just for my own, should be stupid to upload it on repository.

[cpina]

Hi - Mendeley doesn't support the locales but there is a workaround in the linked page: http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/1519214-csl-issue-mendeley-seems-to-ignore-localization

We will implement it probably for Mendeley Desktop 1.12 , I'll let you know @rmzelle and @adam3smith when it's done.

[rmzelle]

@cpina, that workaround only changes the locale used by Mendeley right? Just so I know, is there a way to update the CSL locale files in Mendeley by hand?

[cpina]

@rmzelle : I generate the CSL locale files in Mendeley with a Python script (from the csl-locales github repo) and then we bundle with Mendeley Desktop. No easy way at the moment, sadly.

[rmzelle]

They are updated with each Mendeley release, though?

[cpina]

At the moment we don't have any automatic process to update the locales when building Mendeley Desktop (same goes for citeproc-js, which we update from time to time). So it's not guaranteed that we update the locales with each Mendeley Desktop.

I plan to add proper support for CSL locales in Mendeley Desktop and then I hope to address at the same time too.

[rmzelle]

Sounds great :)