Re: [LegacyUG] Death-burial-cremation

2019-11-27 Thread CE WOOD
I have several relatives who were cremated, and then the urn buried in a cemetery plot marked with a gravestone. None of mine have been interred in memorial buildings (I don't know what they are called) with memorial crypts built into walls. Those crypts have memorial inscriptions. So, in that

[LegacyUG] Death-burial-cremation

2019-11-27 Thread Ian Thomas
I have begun giving my records more accurate information against their “burial” line in Legacy. Some Melbourne, Australia cemeteries give an annotation “Interment of C.R.” which I interpret as interment /burial of the cremated remains. It may be a common practice. So I have been changing or

Re: [LegacyUG] Using special alphabet characters in Legacy

2019-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
Hi John I quite agree, Legacy will be stuck with ANSI until they rewrite it. Given that there is also pressure, from its users, for a Mac version, and presumably a Linux version, they have a need to develop a new program and database that is multi-OS compatible. Hopefully, with the support

Re: [LegacyUG] Using special alphabet characters in Legacy

2019-11-27 Thread John Cardinal
Chris, During my 41-year career I've been a software developer, software architect, and CTO, including a five-year period where my team developed commercial applications in VB6. Since 1999 I've had a couple of side-project applications implemented in VB6. My focus now is .NET. As discussed

Re: [LegacyUG] Using special alphabet characters in Legacy

2019-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
Hi John I will accept that in my 50 years experience as a developer, IT Manager and consultant I never had the need to use VB6. Therefore I was equally puzzled by the limitations that the Legacy developers seem to have applied, given that by the late 1990s Unicode support was becoming