On 12/17/2013 06:32 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: > Jim, > > This doesn't make a lot of sense. Right, it makes no sense at all. > > Are you saying you install Legacy and don't choose the language > version before opening your data? > > Changing language for your data file even if just from English US to > English Australia is enough to lose your own sentence definitions and > revert to the default - and I think something may have been done > about that in 8 - I know there was a discussion at some point. This is not a language issue. > But what spelling is being changed in your own data? While USA is spelled USA, DK is spelled Dk (big D, little k). Since I have a lot of Danish ancestors, I use DK (big D, big K) a lot. > Is it that you haven't set the same fonts in the new installation? > Sounds like characters are mapping to a different one and I think > that could happen if you were using a different character set. This is not a fonts or character mapping issue. > That's the only thing I can think of that would change the > "spellling" of something you've entered. > > Cathy > > At 06:42 AM 18/12/2013, you wrote: >> Hey, >> >> In the past (and I'm still using v.5) >> when I shift to another computer, >> install Legacy and my data, >> Legacy makes spelling changes >> without asking me first. >> >> I think this was a very bad policy. >> And it caused me several hours >> to change things back to original. >> I know I can change this default >> setting before I install my data. >> But during install Legacy doesn't ask >> if I want to keep my data the way I wrote it. >> And I forget Legacy thinks it knows better >> how I want certain foreign words spelled. >> Later after installing my data, I discover ... >> !@#$%^& >> >> Legacy should trust us. >> Legacy should have the courtesy to ask >> if we want any changes. That should >> be the default in my opinion. >> Legacy should trust us first. >> >> Has this spelling default been changed in versions >> later than v.5? If so, I may buy the newer version >> even if it is fatter and slower. >> >> I've used several genealogy programs >> starting with Roots II back in the 1980s. >> Legacy has been the best. I even suffer >> Windoz $#!+ so I can use Legacy. >> >> JimS >> Linux User >
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