Thanks - replacing "language" with "langid"  in the bibtex file fixes the 
capitalization in the bibliography.

Robert.

On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 1:08:36 AM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> Try langid or hyphenation instead of (or in addition to) language. 
> See 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96469/switching-languages-in-bibliography-with-biblatex 
>
> +++ Robert Goulding [Aug 06 17 14:52 ]: 
> >   Escaping the colon works perfectly, after testing. 
> >   I had one other query.  When I convert to docx, the foreign titles are 
> >   put into sentence case, despite the fact that I have the language 
> field 
> >   set.  So, for example, the entry in my bibtex file: 
> >   @BOOK{Weinrich1998-zr, 
> >     title     = "Die Lichtbrechung in den Theorien von Descartes und 
> >   Fermat", 
> >     author    = "Weinrich, Klaus", 
> >     publisher = "F. Steiner", 
> >     series    = "Sudhoffs Archiv: Beihefte", 
> >     year      =  1998, 
> >     address   = "Stuttgart", 
> >     language  = "de" 
> >   } 
> >   turns up in my bibliography as: Weinrich, Klaus. 1998. Die 
> >   Lichtbrechung in Den Theorien von Descartes Und Fermat. Sudhoffs 
> >   Archiv: Beihefte. Stuttgart: F. Steiner. 
> > 
> >   with "den" and "und" capitalized (but not "von"!).  I see this 
> behavior 
> >   whether or notI explicitly include the Chicago csl file from the 
> Zotero 
> >   repository, or just use the pandoc default. 
> >   Robert. 
> >   On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 5:33:36 PM UTC-4, Robert Goulding wrote: 
> > 
> >   Thank you! I will backslash the colons in the file as a fix for now. 
>  - 
> >   Robert. 
> >   On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 12:02:43 PM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote: 
> > 
> >     Thanks (and apologies if I missed the files before). 
> >     Simple repro here: 
> >     ``` 
> >     hi[^fn3] 
> >     [^fn3]: [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius, 
> >     ut appareat supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam." 
> >     ``` 
> >     This yields an empty footnote.  Why?  Because the footnote 
> >     contains: 
> >     ``` 
> >     [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius, ut 
> >     appareat supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam." 
> >     ``` 
> >     which pandoc is parsing as a reference link definition! 
> >     Perhaps pandoc should not allow reference link definitions 
> >     that start with `@`, since these conflict with citations? 
> >     Anyone have thoughts about this?  Someone should probably 
> >     put an issue on the bug tracker for this. 
> >     In the mean time, a workaround is to backslash-escape the 
> >     colon: 
> >         [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]\: "competentius... 
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