Right. The special characters ribbon that Alan mentioned did not supply the characters that I need, which are ąćęłńśżź. I am afraid I know the usual meaning of the phrase “we just have to rewrite the whole product.”
Thanks all for your advice. Jurek Från: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Skickat: den 12 juni 2011 14:11 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: [LegacyUG] National characters in names Jurek, Support gave you the final answer! Legacy does not support the fonts which you require, to do so requires that the program is rewritten using UTF-8 coding and probably use VB.Net instead of VB6. It is my understanding that this is on the list of things to be done at some time in the future. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Jurek Hirschberg <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:53 AM 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 _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3697 - Release Date: 06/12/11 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
