I have been requesting Eastern European special characters / diacritics for years but Legacy has not even added them to their “special character map”, even in version 8. This is extremely annoying, although I like everything else about Legacy. Legacy do not even indicate they doing anything to address this problem- no estimated time frame- nothing.
I want to publish my family history. For years of been keeping a list of incorrectly spelled names of people and places so one day I can save my work as a Word document and do all the “find and replace” actions needed. My list is however growing out of hand. It’s ridiculous and I’m fed up. Even then, that might work if wanted to limit my family to selected bits and pieces for publication in a book, but I could not simply use Legacy to publish everything on a website. It has been a number of years since I have compared genealogy software programs. I think I will revisit this issue and if there is a software program that compares favourably with Legacy while including diacritics, I will change to it. It is gradually becoming easier to trace ancestors in counties like Poland and Eastern Europeans are becoming more interested in genealogy. Countries like the US, UK and Australia have a very multicultural heritage which I feel has been disrespected by Legacy. Unless Legacy caters for various ethnicities or nationalities, it is purely a matter of time before more progressive software is developed by others and takes market share away from Legacy. Why does Legacy not even include Eastern European diacritics in their Special Characters Map and allow people like me to do a “search and replace” within Legacy? I could live with that. John From: CE WOOD Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:44 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Alphabet Character set But at least they could be on the character strip, and, when you could enter them using keystrokes. As it is now, even using the correct keystrokes, Legacy will not enter them. CE > From: emjay...@gmail.com > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alphabet Character set > Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 00:06:51 +0200 > > On 2015/01/31 10:17 PM, Albert Ignatowski wrote: > > > Is it possible to select alphabet character sets other than the default set > > in Legacy 8? What I an looking for is an alphabet set that includes some of > > the > > European characters that have accent marks over consonants such as "n", "s", > > and the slash mark through "l" as in Polish. > > Adding to what Sherry said, even if Legacy ever got rewritten, you would still > need a Polish version of Windows to be able to comfortably enter and view > these > Polish characters. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry (Jhb) 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
