New line in "extra" field induces error during bibliography generation

I got this inscrutable error when generating a bibliography from multiple items: "An error occurred generating your bibliography.Please try again." The under-the-hood error output is

188BET靠谱吗> [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: zoteroField[1] is undefined" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/cite.js" line: 416}]

and my error ID is 742883189.

After trying again, restarting, etc., I finally succumbed to a binary search, first to narrow down on the problem items, and then to the problem fields in the item.I determined that adding a newline in the "Extra" field causes the bibliography generation to throw an error.The newline is entered using the "return" keyboard button.

188BET靠谱吗MacOS 10.15.2, Zotero 5.0.85.

I now have many items that have newlines in the "extra" field, and it would be a big pain to change them all.188BET靠谱吗(Especially since I think Zotero still does not have a feature for batch changes?) How do I get around this error?Thank you.
  • That's not from a newline.It looks like it can happen if you have a line that starts with a single letter followed by a colon.We'll fix that, but I'm curious how you ended up with that in your note.
  • (Well, to be fair to me, it *can be caused* by adding the new line (just before a single letter then colon).But thank you for more precisely stating the problem condition.)

    188BET靠谱吗I use the Zotero Scholar Citations plugin which puts citation data in the "extra" field.That plugin usually populates the field with something like "ZSCC: 1" (i.e., letter-then-colon at the start of a line).However, if I the plugin was getting blocked by Google, which happens from time to time, and I wanted to record a citation number by hand, I would start a new line and prepend it with a J, e.g.,

    ZSCC: 1
    J: 2

    188BET靠谱吗Does your answer mean this will not be fixed until the next version of Zotero?
  • The fix is now available in the latest 188BET靠谱吗Zotero beta188BET靠谱吗, and it will be included in Zotero 5.0.86.
  • Thank you for the rapid resolution of this problem.
  • 188BET靠谱吗Zotero 5.0.86 is out now with this fix.
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