Thanks Bill. I doubt that the latter will happen, so I guess I'll have to hope for the former. I knew PAF was one of the few products that supported Unicode, but since some of the characters are already in Legacy and can be added to the ribbon, I thought perhaps they could just add a few more to the existing character map.
Obviously, I don't fully understand all of the implications of this type of update. Dick Richard M. Doherty Director, Celtic Quest, LLC 5237 Folkstone Dr. Troy, MI 48085-3222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.celticquest.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Bienia Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Estern European characters in name and place fields Dick, As I understand it, the underlying database used to develop Legacy doesn't support Unicode, so some Eastern European characters cannot be accommodated. (PAF v5 included Unicode support so these characters were not an issue.) To support Unicode in Legacy, either the underlying database would have to be updated to support Unicode or another database product that does support Unicode would have to be used, which would mean starting over almost from scratch to code a new version of Legacy. Bill Bill Bienia, PLCGS www.CobblestoneLegacies.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:LegacyUserGroup- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Doherty > Sent: 2-Jun-08 5:53 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Estern European characters in name and place fields > > I am a new Legacy user having used PAF from ver 1 through 5. I bought > Legacy V.6 and tested the import with some small PAF databases - Great! > Now I received V.7 and imported my main db which contained Eastern > European (Unicode) characters. The results of the import were mixed. Some > were brought over correctly, while others generated 2 characters and at > times made the name unreadable. > > The successful letters are: š ž ÿ á é í. > > The ones I still need (based upon my current database) are: č ě ň ř and Ř. > > Does anyone know a work-around for this? I attempted to copy/paste from > PAF but each one showed up as a question mark in Legacy. Does Legacy have > plans to add this support? If so, would this be an update to V.7, or a > new release? What is the priority of this feature? > > Thanks for an otherwise great product! > > Dick > > Richard M. Doherty > Director, Celtic Quest, LLC Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1478 - Release Date: 6/2/2008 7:12 AM Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
