The Polish Ł seems not to be in the Windows Western set. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Alan Pereira <[email protected]>wrote:
> Jurek, I use a number of non English characters for my French relative > names. Have you looked at the special charaters available on the LHS of the > Individual edit screen (just to the left of the words “Events/Facts”? > > Alan > > > > *From:* Jurek Hirschberg [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 12 June 2011 11:54 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] National characters in names > > > > I am new to Legacy and thus have possibly missed something obvious. I am > unable to enter nor import names that include Polish national characters. > The answer from Legacy Support is: “Currently Legacy will only work with > Western European fonts. Legacy was developed with Visual Basic 6.0 and our > goal is to port it to another programming language which will allow us to > have full Unicode support.” Is there a work-around? – or is this genealogy > software really unable to correctly spell family and place names that go > outside the basic character set? Has anybody seen any activity on the part > of Legacy indicating that the statement about portation should be taken > literally within foreseeable future? Please note that I am not inquiring > about international versions of Legacy but rather about user-controlled data > in the standard version. > > > > Jurek Hirschberg > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > 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 > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > 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 > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
