Doug, Don't believe this has nothing to do with Legacy.
If you need to enter a word having a diacritical mark, then Legacy must be able to store and present it properly. That in turn means that your computer must store and reproduce data with diacritical marks. I've had to make certain adjustments with my operating systems (OS) to be able to enter words with diacritical marks in Legacy. I've seen failure to display such with some programs, as Brian pointed out below. I use diacritical marks with Legacy and have experienced not problems once I made necessary keyboard adjustments to my OS. JimS On 11/05/2013 10:28 PM, Douglas Tighe wrote: > Thanks to all for the information I can now go back to Aussie talk > knowing that these symbols really don't effect Legacy. > Ron, I feel it did warrant explaining as it effects the UG forum and > as you say not Legacy. > > Doug Tighe > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ronald Bernier > <ronaldbern...@icloud.com <mailto:ronaldbern...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > Bottom line - this has nothing at all to do with Legacy, so why is > this subject being driven into the ground. > > Ron Bernier > Woonsocket, RI > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:27 PM, "Brian L. Lightfoot" > <br...@the-lightfoots.com <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com>> wrote: > >> Yes, that is mostly true but I think that using HTML can send >> certain characters that cannot be directly represented in plain >> text. One of the biggest examples are the emoticons. If I send a >> "smiley" face in plain text, it consists of 3 separate characters >> (colon, hyphen, close parenthesis) but within HTML, those get >> re-interpreted by whatever characters set the user is using >> (Windows, Mac, etc) and is changed to one smiley face character >> usually from a special symbols typeface. And another example is >> this: I will insert a “horizontal line†below this paragraph. You >> should see it because I am sending in HTML. If you attempt to >> reply to this message and switch to plain text, I think the >> horizontal line will disappear entirely. >> >> Horizontal line here: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> One character smiley face here: J >> >> Beyond that, I think the OP can rest easy about any weird >> characters showing up on messages in this forum. Usually one can >> determine what the original character was intended to be. >> >> Brian in CA >> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
