Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

The Legacy staff always clearly identifies themselves... I worked for Legacy for 14 years and led a Legacy SIG for our local genealogy society for 10 years and can get into the "support mode" when answering questions on the list . Sherry On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:53 PM,

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

You speak with such authority and knowledge that I mistook you for a current Millennia empolyee. I will consider sending an e-mail as you suggest. Brian On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Sherry H [Masked] < > wrote: > > > > > They're not "my" programmers When I was working for Legacy in >

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

They're not "my" programmers When I was working for Legacy in Support, I was always told that VB6 didn't support Unicode and that they'd need to reprogram in a language that did support it, such as VB.Net. You might send in an email about this to supp...@legacyfamilytree.com. Sherry On

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

​​ Sherry, CyberCyberActiveX and Hexagora are two companies that have software that would fix this problem without a rewrite of Legacy. Hexagora states: "The Unicode Library for VB6 is a robust and lightweight API driven ActiveX component that will permit you to turn your VB6 programs into

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Thanks, Sherry. I was afraid that would be the case. Gene On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Sherry H wrote: > Gene, > > Legacy doesn't support non-Western European fonts. I don't know when > the programmers will be able to reprogram Legacy in a programming > language that

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Gene, Legacy doesn't support non-Western European fonts. I don't know when the programmers will be able to reprogram Legacy in a programming language that supports those fonts. I know it's been a popular request probably since the program was first released. The only workaround is to use the

[LegacyUG] Special Characters

I have a lot of Czech names and places that use special characters that are not available in Legacy v.8 choices for special characters. I can find them in the Windows 7 Character Map, but when I copy and paste them into a name or location field in v.8, a question mark appears, not the special

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

In Dutch the ij isn't a special character you just type the i and the j. It's a long time ago I have seen a Dutch keyboard with a separate letter ij. Most Dutch use the English International keyboard. Evert Op za 24 dec. 2016 om 00:37 schreef alex aj > How do I add a

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

f Joyce Herzog <joyce.her...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 3:59 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames. Alex, there is a ribbon on my person view o the left side of the events section. You can also see apecial characters in "He

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of alex aj Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 6:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames. How do I add a special character in a surname. In Dutch a character can be either a “y” or “ij

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames. > > > > How do I add a special character in a surname. > > In Dutch a character can be either a “y” or “ij”. > > Entering the “y” is no problem but how do I create the “ij” as a

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of alex aj Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 6:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames. How do I add a special character in a surname. In Dutch a character can be either a "y" or "ij". Entering t

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

] On Behalf Of alex aj Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 6:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames. How do I add a special character in a surname. In Dutch a character can be either a "y" or "ij". Entering the "y&qu

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

Alex, there is a ribbon on my person view o the left side of the events section. You can also see apecial characters in "Help" Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Joyce On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:36 PM, alex aj wrote: > How do I add a special character in a surname. >

[LegacyUG] Special characters in surnames.

How do I add a special character in a surname. In Dutch a character can be either a "y" or "ij". Entering the "y" is no problem but how do I create the "ij" as a special character? Thanks in advance. Ciao Alex van Crasbeek 10 Lloyd Ave Mt Albert AUCKLAND 1025 ( +64 9 846-4967 (

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters in Event Notes

] Special characters in Event Notes It seems that I can add all sorts of "special" characters to Event Notes, which is very useful when one is often wanted to quote from foreign language or historical publications. But I also often quote from newspaper articles and advertisements which

[LegacyUG] Special characters in Event Notes

It seems that I can add all sorts of "special" characters to Event Notes, which is very useful when one is often wanted to quote from foreign language or historical publications. But I also often quote from newspaper articles and advertisements which frequently incorporate an em-dash

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Bob, Ha! I forgive you, since this looks like a good solution. Thanks for your help! Gene On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:22 PM, BobsTree2-Gmail bobstr...@gmail.com wrote: Re the Windows Czech keyboard Czech (Sorry, I could not resist it) out this article:

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

I assume you already tried changing the 8 characters that can show in the ribbon from the selection of special characters.  If the characters you need are not in the table, then Millennia support should get involved.  It may require a different code set.  Be sure to check HelpSearchCharacter

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Ron, Legacy does not support utf-8 as the program is based on VB6 technology and .NET is needed for utf-8. Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

UTF-8,UTF-16, Unicode characters have been possible for 5-6 years via 3rd party Libraries used with Visual Basic 6. Legacy 7 and Legacy 8 both could have supported UTF-8 with these libraries. Some 3rd product libraries and there are others: http://www.cyberactivex.com/unicodetutorialvb.htm

RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters

know. But hey. CE Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:37:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters From: jmagy...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com UTF-8,UTF-16, Unicode characters have been possible for 5-6 years via 3rd party Libraries used with Visual Basic 6. Legacy 7

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

John, It is not the practice for Legacy to disclose their future developments much before the time of release. We have only just had V8, so some years off yet! Ron Ferguson John Magyari jmagy...@gmail.com wrote: UTF-8,UTF-16, Unicode characters have been possible for 5-6 years via 3rd party

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Legacy 8.0.0.427HelpHelp IndexSearchUTF-8 finds it under both import and export GEDCOM.  I haven't tested it lately to see if it actually works but it is documented in these help files. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:46 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: John, It

[LegacyUG] Special characters

I have a lot of Czech names and locations that require the use of special characters, many of which are not available to choose for use within Legacy v.8. When I try to use these characters from the Windows Character Map, they display in a larger font than used in the various name, location, and

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Copy it into wordpad and then just change the font size to want you want. Then copy into Legacy. I haven't tried it but I assume that works. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Gene Wheeler bridge...@gmail.com wrote: I have a lot of Czech names and locations that require the use of special

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Have you tried the ribbon for special characters as you enter data? On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 5:18 PM, Steve Pick st...@trycom.com wrote: Copy it into wordpad and then just change the font size to want you want. Then copy into Legacy. I haven't tried it but I assume that works. On Tue,

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Yes, but the needed characters are not there. I wonder if there is a way to expand or change the list from which the ribbon characters are chosen in Legacy. Gene On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Have you tried the ribbon for special characters as you enter

RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters

] Special characters From: bridge...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Yes, but the needed characters are not there. I wonder if there is a way to expand or change the list from which the ribbon characters are chosen in Legacy. Gene On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Ron Taylor doit4

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

if you copied and pasted the correct characters, they would not show because Legacy doesn't use UTF-8 yet. CE -- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 18:54:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters From: bridge...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Yes

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Try using a Czech keyboard. I switch to a Danish keyboard for about six characters, and back to English. Just a quick mouse click to switch between keyboards after set up. Note, doing this on Windows 7, not sure when this feature was first available. Bob Hansen Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Interesting idea! Thanks! Gene On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, BobsTree2-Gmail bobstr...@gmail.com wrote: Try using a Czech keyboard. I switch to a Danish keyboard for about six characters, and back to English. Just a quick mouse click to switch between keyboards after set up. Note,

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

In order to insert Czech characters, you need to follow the instructions on the Czech website for a registry hack and some other changes. Only problem is you need to be able to read Czech to find the instructions! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

my family tree, I would have to save it as a word document, do a lot of search and replace, then publish it as a book. I very much like Legacy in other ways. John From: Gene Wheeler Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 9:54 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Re the Windows Czech keyboard Czech (Sorry, I could not resist it) out this article: http://superuser.com/questions/653404/how-to-type-czech-characters-on-windows-7-using-cs-language-with-us-internationa Bob Hansen Legacy User Group guidelines:

[LegacyUG] Special characters - redux

Well, I see that my email client made an even different change to those characters!! X;{ == Legacy does a good job normally when I use letters with diacritical marks, as found in languages other than English. However, it's special characters do not include some characters found

RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters

Gene As a mild correction, the Latin alphabet is limited to the 255 characters. Apologies. Kind Regards Mark Lang From: Mark Lang [mailto:markl...@adam.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2012 9:32 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters Gene

RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters

[mailto:markl...@adam.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2012 9:32 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters Gene, It appears that you will be unable to do what you want because what you want to do can only be achieved with Unicode. In Legacy I can only achieve

RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters

To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:32:23 +0930 Gene, It appears that you will be unable to do what you want because what you want to do can only be achieved with Unicode. In Legacy I can only achieve the diacritics as noted

Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters

:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters Thanks, Mark. So, if I was Irish and lived in Ireland, I wouldn't be a good prospect for Legacy, I guess. ;-) Gene = At 07:14 PM 4/14/2012, you wrote: Gene As a mild correction, the Latin alphabet

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

On 2011/12/29 02:08, Georgia wrote: I have been adding a number of family members with Hawaiian names. To give their correct spelling, I need an occasional letter with an overscore. I have not found what I need on the Special Character map. Is there a way to add a needed character to the

RE: Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Please check the following forum thread and read the last entry. Hope it helps. http://www.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=104t=13595 From: Randy Clark [mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com] I'm not sure there is a Windows ALT code for the kahako. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Paul Gray

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Actually, the help file does not address the OP's question. She asked Is there a way to add a needed character to the map?. The help file, as far as I can see, only addresses how to add an existing character from the character map to the 'ribbon' of a few select special characters. I see no

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Thanks, Mike. I did do that first and it doesn't actually answer my question about adding /new/ characters to the map. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

Legacy can only support Western European fonts. If this character is not in the Windows Character Map for Western European characters, then Legacy can't use it. Doing a little digging around, I found that some of the Hawaiian characters are Unicode fonts, which Legacy doesn't support at this

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

I'm not sure there is a Windows ALT code for the kahako. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Paul Gray grayp...@telus.net wrote: Actually, the help file does not address the OP's question. She asked Is there a way to add a needed character to the map?. The help file, as far as I can see, only

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

On 2011/12/29 21:22, Georgia wrote: Thanks, Mike. I did do that first and it doesn't actually answer my question about adding /new/ characters to the map. I've read the original query in a little more detail... Unless the character you want is already in the basic, European character set that

RE: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

need isn't supported. Could you send an example of the letter you need as that would be a great help to help you. Bernhard -Original Message- From: Georgia [mailto:gc...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Special

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

: Georgia [mailto:gc...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Special Characters I have been adding a number of family members with Hawaiian names. To give their correct spelling, I need an occasional letter with an overscore

[LegacyUG] Special Characters

I have been adding a number of family members with Hawaiian names. To give their correct spelling, I need an occasional letter with an overscore. I have not found what I need on the Special Character map. Is there a way to add a needed character to the map? Thank you, Georgia Chun Legacy

[LegacyUG] Special Characters

Some of my notes have several 'return' characters to start with. Is there any way to select records with 'special characters' such as 'return' or 'tab' Peter Abbott Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: