Does Word (for example) accept the diacriticals in question? Perhaps you could create a source just for this problem - attached to the 'name' field - and then attach a 'file' under multimedia with the Word document showing all of the correct name/place spellings with the diacriticals. The file would open outside of Legacy and wouldn't be subject to it's restrictions. Well, that's my theory anyway; what I would probably try with that situation. And this does interest me greatly since I have tons of Polish research to do; thank you for bringing this up because now I will be aware.
It's ok if all you techies/experts shoot down this idea; this way I will be prepared when I really get into the Polish records (yes, I've been putting that off for a long, long time - letting other family members handle it but it turns out they are not sourcing so I need to go through their research and do that part :-/ Kathy On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I,too, am struggling with my Slovak names. How are the rest of you showing > what the names actually are (especially surnames and village names)in Legacy > if you can't use the actual names with the diacriticals? In the village for > one family surname I am researching I have found the same surname as mine > but with a diacritical on a letter. And with the first names being pretty > much the same in the village, one could very easily take the wrong research > path for the lack of a mark. So, how do you let everyone know what those > diacriticals are? I have tried writing my notes in Word and copying them > over to Legacy notes, but the diacriticals do not copy correctly. > > I started on Legacy with my husbands English, Irish and Swedish ancestors > and found Legacy a joy to work with. Now, working on my side of the family, > with all four of my grandparents coming from Slovakia, I am constantly > frustrated and have piles of paper documents that I can't enter correctly > into Legacy. What is a work-around to let everyone looking at my reports > (or myself after a Legacy absence)know exactly what specific names I am > researching? > > Faith Anderson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jurek Hirschberg" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:53:49 AM > 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<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > -- Kathy Meyer Technology is both blessing and curse, depending on what it's doing for you (or to you) on any particular day. 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
