Alas. Legacy cannot display those diacritcal marks even if you paste them from Word. Legacy programmers are too busy with other things to make the change to unicode. So much for accomodating foreign users! Legacy is long on promising they will do it.
CE From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Special characters Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:32:23 +0930 Gene, It appears that you will be unable to do what you want because what you want to do can only be achieved with Unicode. In Legacy I can only achieve the diacritics as noted by the special characters on the special characters ribbon. In Word 2007 however, I was able to achieve the long vowels that you mentioned in your e-m. BTW, the small inverted v is called a circumflex accent. Because when you transfer data from Legacy to TNG, you are using GEDCOM, which is limited (just off the top of my head) to the first 128 characters (don’t quote me) whereas the diacritics you require are in the extended characters not recognised by simple text, but is by HTML. That is why you can make the changes on your website but doesn’t transfer correctly because the codes don’t translate. Kind Regards Mark Lang From: Gene Wheeler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2012 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Special characters Legacy does a good job normally when I use letters with diacritical marks, as found in languages other than English. However, it's special characters do not include some characters found in the Irish language; e.g. ô, î, and â: i.e. small letters o, i and a with a bar over the top, such as a "long o", "long i", and "long a" that you would find in an English dictionary or pronunciation guide. I import my Legacy file into TNG. I can edit these words in TNG and the correct characters, and TNG will display them properly. But when I try to copy and paste the correct characters into Legacy, it changes the straight bar into a small inverted "vee". So when I import that file into TNG, it changes the characters I entered directly into TNG. Is the a way to work around this? I hope I have explained myself adequately. Gene 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
