I am looking for a product to migrate to from PAF. I imported my file into Legacy and noticed that all the Polish national characters except ó had been skipped in the process. I joined this group for the purpose of asking this single question about a work-around for the problem. Having read the responses I am assured that the original answer from Legacy Support was the correct one: change of development platform is required to radically solve the problem. This was declared to be the goal. This is a huge challenge and I wish Legacy and its users a success, as this is in many respects a beautiful product. Considering that names of people and places are at the very core of this application, I don’t think that Legacy can stay successful in the longer term without energetically working towards this goal – which, of course, if properly done, will improve a lot of other things as well.
As it Is not healthy to pick a product that doesn’t comply to one’s basic requirement and has a major makeover in store, I am taking my leave for the moment and return to my dull, dead and reliable PAF. I hope to be back within near future to check new versions for good news, and not the least because this user group seems to be a great asset, and a pleasure to participate in and learn. Thanks. Jurek Hirschberg Från: Alan Pereira [mailto:[email protected]] Skickat: den 14 juni 2011 12:13 Till: [email protected] Ämne: RE: [LegacyUG] National characters in names Word does accept these characters. Any attempt to paste them into Legacy results in a “?” instead of the pasted character. Legacy seems to be in the minority of software not supporting these characters. Alan From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 June 2011 10:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] National characters in names Kathy, I cannot speak for WORD as I use OpenOffice.org, however it should be possible to set the coding to UTF8 and then use Search and Replace to change the names in question. I doubt if it would do this automatically. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Kathy Meyer <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] National characters in names 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 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 <http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> ). To unsubscribe: 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. 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