Chinese characters missing from footnotes

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See: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/29362/chinese-characters-missing-from-footnotes/

When I create automatic citations with the OpenOffice add-in, some characters are being skipped. The same character disappears in different citations. However, if I manually export the citation from Zotero, everything prints out correctly. This happens independently of the citation style, the font, operating system: it both occurs in Linux and Windows 7 and has begun to occur only recently. Up until six months ago I had no such problem, but after a break I took from writing and several Zotero updates, characters started to disappear.

For example, the following citation:

“国务院批转教育部2003—2007年教育振兴行动计划的通知,” Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, March 3, 2004, http://www.moe.eol.cn/edoas/website18/17/info34017.htm.

becomes when I use the OpenOffice addin:

“国务批教2003—2007年教振兴动划的知,” Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, March 3, 2004, http://www.moe.eol.cn/edoas/website18/17/info34017.htm.

Various characters are missing in the second string. The same characters missing here will be missing from all the other citations, so it looks like the add-in fails to render a set of characters.

The missing characters are those beginning with UTF8 0xe8 or 0xe9, which evaluate to è and é respectively if single-byte characters are assumed. A pattern-match or find-and-replace operation somewhere could be going awry.

I include here a screenshot to show the issue: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10099866/Screenshot%20-%2005152013%20-%2006%3A41%3A30%20PM.png