After reading Michele's comment about Polish Characters I tried the following:
In Legacy I tried to use Ukrainian, Polish and Slovak letters and I could figure out how to enter them. I exported a UTF-8 Gedcom 5.5.1 file with 4 people in Legacy an English person whose father was Ukrainian whose father was Polish whose father was Slovak used all english characters for names.. I then edited created Gedcom file with notepad and added Cyrillic, Polish and Slovak characters to the appropriate person's name. I then imported into Genbox, FTM2012 both imported gedcom no errors and were able to create charts with all characters. I then imported into Legacy did not see any error messages, non-English characters were not displayed correctly. Names stored in fdb tables IR, MR, NR and NX appeared as they do in Legacy but not like they do in the Gedcom, Legacy export mentions UTF-8 and Ansel which both should support Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian (Cyrillic) characters. Here's the gedcom 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 7.5 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Gedcom5.5.1 1 DATE 12 Mar 2012 1 SUBM @S0@ 1 FILE R:\Program Files\Legacy\Data\UTF8.ged 1 GEDC 2 VERS 5.5.1 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED 1 CHAR UTF-8 0 @S0@ SUBM 1 NAME John Magyari 0 @I1@ INDI 1 NAME English /E2/ 2 GIVN English 2 SURN E2 1 SEX M 1 _UID D2E6041F943745EFA4B75A476B01DDE302B7 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 1 FAMC @F3@ 0 @I2@ INDI 1 NAME Ukrainian /U2лджє/ 2 GIVN Ukrainian 2 SURN U2лджє 1 SEX M 1 _UID E4BF8AAB39B34493BAC6D52004B69B056A21 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 1 FAMS @F3@ 1 FAMC @F1@ 0 @I3@ INDI 1 NAME Polish /P2żśłą/ 2 GIVN Polish 2 SURN P2żśłą 1 SEX M 1 _UID 69BD6EF9F49C4624BCE63281EAA9DF4896F4 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 1 FAMS @F1@ 1 FAMC @F2@ 0 @I4@ INDI 1 NAME Slovak /S2ôúäň/ 2 GIVN Slovak 2 SURN S2ôúäň 1 SEX M 1 _UID CF781FD94CA144F6B6496BDE23C5458C67F0 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 1 FAMS @F2@ 0 @F1@ FAM 1 HUSB @I3@ 1 MARR 1 CHIL @I2@ 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 0 @F2@ FAM 1 HUSB @I4@ 1 MARR 1 CHIL @I3@ 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 0 @F3@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2@ 1 MARR 1 CHIL @I1@ 1 CHAN 2 DATE 12 Mar 2012 3 TIME 05:03 0 TRLR On 3/11/2012 5:19 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: > > Speaking of Polish locations… Be aware that Legacy does not include > the needed alphabet set to be able to write the Polish characters. > > Michele > > *From:*John Magyari [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:08 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] How to document Locations in Europe 5 Fields > vs 4 Fields > > Thanks for everyone's ideas. > Some of my Polish time periods use 4 some 5 positions > > I decided to force all 5 location positions into 4. Having same > number of fields helps with sorting. > > Ideally if would be nice to specify Number of locations field MAX. > Then if entered with less fields specify which fields to become null. > ie. MaxPositions = 5, LessPositionOrder if less 2,3if less than MAX > ie For Me for Poland > city, administration, county, state, country (1,2,3,4,5) > If less fields entered enter Nulls > city, county, state, country (Null 1 field - admin) > city, state, country (Null other 2 fields -admin, county) > city, state (Null other 3 fields) > state (Null other 4 fields) > > > I will use 4 fields, and in the process converted all locations with > fewer positions to 4 position system. > > john > > > > > > > > On 3/11/2012 4:04 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > > John, > >  > > By all means use the American four field standard for American > locations, but for other countries use their own formats, normally the > way in which they are written. > >  > > Ron Ferguson > > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > >  > >  > > *From:*John Magyari <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:*Thursday, March 08, 2012 7:35 PM > > *To:*[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Subject:*[LegacyUG] How to document Locations in Europe 5 Fields vs 4 > Fields > >  > > Typically for US locations i have ****4 FIELDS > City, County, State, Country > > How do others handle European Countries? > > For example I have a village in Poland Area > > 1900's part of Austria Hungary > > Village, District, Province, Country ****4 FIELDS > Lipowiec, Sanok District, Galicia Province, Austria-Hungary > > Same place in 1940's ****4 FIELDS > Lipowiec, Sanok District, Krosno Voivodeship, Poland > > Almost all places in Current Day Poland 1950's through today *****5 FIELDS > City, Gmina, County, Voivodeship, COUNTRY > Lipowiec, Dukla Gmina, Krosno County > <wlmailhtml://wiki/Krosno_County>, Subcarpathian Voivodeship > <wlmailhtml://wiki/Subcarpathian_Voivodeship>, Poland > > and since 2012 *****5 Fields > Lipowiec, Jasliska Gmina, Krosno County > <wlmailhtml://wiki/Krosno_County>, Subcarpathian Voivodeship > <wlmailhtml://wiki/Subcarpathian_Voivodeship>, Poland > > When some locations ideally be 5 FIELDS, do you go back and update > those with 4 Fields? > > With some having 4 some having 5 it's also harder sorting and then > viewing similar towns over time periods. > > thanks, > john magyari > > > > 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 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). 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